Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:58:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: Felix 'buebo' Kakrow <buebo@buebo.de> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of gvinum RAID-5 Message-ID: <20061115155418.R23325@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20061110170729.5414df98@gwen.pulp-friction.local> References: <20061110170729.5414df98@gwen.pulp-friction.local>
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > Hello List, > I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 > was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid > worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was > somewhere between very painful and not possible. > > Now I will have to upgrade hardware soon, which means I could switch > from NetBSD (and Raidframe) to FreeBSD (with gvinum) again. I would > like to because NetBSD seems to have some kind of memory leak in > connection with Samba and large or many files, but I'd rather have a > somewhat unstable Samba than an unstable Raid, so what's the state of > affairs? > > Cheers > Felix I'm about to try; I have my home server stuck at 4.11 because I could never get gvinum to work reliably with 5.x, and the drives I had wouldn't work with two different hardware RAID controllers (ex EMC ST446xxx's, a DPT/Adaptec controller and a LSI controller - apparently only certain EMC BIOS versions will work, and I don't have them). I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. Mike Squires UNIX(tm) at home since 1986
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