Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:47:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> Cc: "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." <orville@weyrich.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Message-ID: <20010404094731.A67096@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee>; from vallo@matti.ee on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:28:12PM %2B0200 References: <3AC986CA.22038A9A@weyrich.com> <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tuesday, 3 April 2001 at 14:28:12 +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0700, "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." <orville@weyrich.com> wrote: > >> I happen to have come by six identical 4.3 GB SCSI hard drives, and was >> wondering about an inexpensive way to make a FreeBSD server that uses >> them. My manual on FreeBSD covers version 3.2 -- I realize there are >> newer versions, but my search of the FreeBSD web site doesn't turn up my >> answer. >> >> Is there a way to implement RAID-5 with a couple standard SCSI >> controllers (the kind at eBay for under $100) or do I need to buy a >> specialized RAID-5 controller card? >> >> Am I asking for too much? :-) If it isn't too much, where do I go from >> here? > > You can use vinum volume manager, look at > http://www.vinumvm.org/ > > Use recent -stable for implementing vinum and beware that RAID-5 is > considered somewhat buggy, at least that's what I gather from > postings in the lists. A couple of bugs have surfaced in the RAID-5 code recently. I have committed fixes for one, and the other is fixed but not committed. > Use two controllers, three disks each. That depends on the controllers. You could get away with one. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010404094731.A67096>