Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:17:27 -0600 From: secmgr <security@jim-liesl.org> To: Edwin Brown <edwin.brown@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?! Message-ID: <4280C277.4030904@jim-liesl.org> In-Reply-To: <8b6eae96050510071037d3b6e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <8b6eae96050510071037d3b6e4@mail.gmail.com>
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Edwin Brown wrote: >All: > >I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not >worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the >mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the >5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today? > >The plan would be use a 40GB ATA/100 Drive for the system and 4 SATA >drives for the RAID-5 array. Will gvinum be happy with this kind of >arrangement? > Well, you want to stay away from vinum in 5.x. Under 5.3 gvinum and raid 5 was not robust, and I could kill a system and corrupt the array by pulling a drive. I haven't tried lately, but i'd definitly want to do some serious testing before putting that into production. If you really need raid 5, I'd look into a H/W based solution. and yes, I filed PR's that so far have not been answered. jim
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