From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 13:31:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F1516A41F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:31:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCDF43D73 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D9113B8EE; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kweetal.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92533-04-3; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from umta.win.tue.nl (umta.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.100]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF87D13B88B; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002 [131.155.71.72]) by umta.win.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB29231401C; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C19CD40B8; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:31:00 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tue.nl Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:31:19 -0000 --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the > current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to > risk it. IMHO it's pretty stable in 6.0. I've been running gvinum RAID-5 for a while now; other than one strange panic (something to do with out of memory situations, see kern/89660) I haven't had a hitch yet. That said, I haven't needed to replace a disk yet either (I've demoed this but it was not yet needed in production use). In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the corner (as a result of a SoC project). --Stijn --=20 "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred." -- The Mahabharata. --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmDWUY3r/tLQmfWcRAvogAJ9B5+Ax75ypjp1tTh96kQSwTJFELACfRDKa 3PdqNrZsafHfsgMNQKXblg8= =+4qC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M--