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Date:      Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:21:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brian Szymanski" <ski@indymedia.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?
Message-ID:  <4802.10.0.0.26.1101417679.squirrel@10.0.0.26>
In-Reply-To: <41A5B95F.3060605@withagen.nl>
References:  <41A45A3F.5010008@anduin.net> <20041124171115.GP7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <6579E984-3E47-11D9-9576-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net> <20041125101405.GB7690@kevad.internal> <41A5B95F.3060605@withagen.nl>

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>>The only problem then is - gvinum being in a completely unusable state
>>(for raid5 anyway), what are my alternatives? I have four 160gb IDE
>>drives, and I want capacity+redundancy. Performance is a non-issue,
>>really. What do I do - in software?

What's unusable about it? I've 4 250GB ATA drives, desiring capacity +
redundancy, but don't care about speed, much like you, and gvinum raid 5
has suited me just fine this past few weeks. Eats a lot of system cpu when
there is heavy IO to the R5, but I've booted up with a drive unplugged and
it worked fine in degraded mode, so I'm content...

> Vinum and now gvinum (I have not tried the latter, your words) have
> never had reliable RAID-5 implementation. That is my experience only.

? This is the first I've heard of such problems? Vinum has served me well
in the past, although I've never used Raid-5 before... If there are known
bugs, I'd appreciate someone sending me a link to where I can read more.

Cheers,
Brian Szymanski
ski@indymedia.org




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