Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:21:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0? Message-ID: <20010102152109.D19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun>; from tmseck@web.de on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:01:07PM %2B0100 References: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun>
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* Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de> [010102 14:00] wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry if this is OT for -stable, but I followed the discussion about > vinum in here and got a bit worried. > > I am currently deploying a proxy server for our company. It shall use > squid on 4.2-STABLE. I would like to put the cache data on a vinum RAID > 0, made of three U160 disks. As I understood the discussion so far, > there are some unresolved problems with the raid 5 code. Could someone > tell me whether I can safely use vinum for building a raid 0 system > (despite the fact that the HW may be a point of failure of course)? > > Thanks in advance and best regards from Germany We've been using RAID-0 and RAID-1 with vinum here for a long time, the only problem we had was during a 3.x->4.x upgrade, we were able to recover from it after freaking out for a bit though. So yes, it is stable. I still wouldn't trust the RAID-5, but if you want to get RAID-5 working you could take a shot on getting some reproducable corruption/panics and let Greg know. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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