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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:16:53 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        gsmith@colis.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Vinum (was: RAID)
Message-ID:  <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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
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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
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