From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 17:47:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A1037B42C for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e850krZ55689; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:16:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:16:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Tancsa Cc: gsmith@colis.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <00090310375700.05988@www.runapplications.com> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net>; from mike@sentex.net on Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:02:41PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 4 September 2000 at 12:02:41 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:31 AM 9/3/2000 -0500, cyber@colis.com wrote: >> I have vinum running on a free mail server in a Raid 5 configuration, It is a >> lot faster than low end hardware raid solutions. The machine has 2 cpus (Abit >> dual celeron motherboard) so Raid 5 calculation is not a problem. >> Hope this helps. > > Thanks! Have you had any drives go bad in production ? Was vinum able to > work around it no problem ? Vinum should handle (not "work around") failed drives. Replacing them can be a little baroque. See http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html for more details. > Any caveats ? None that I can think of. It's a good idea to read the documentation before you start. Greg -- 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-stable" in the body of the message