FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

[Ivan Voras]

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. So, I'm looking at hardware raid 5 controllers. From this list,

You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components like raid5. I've 
been using it for more than a year now and didn't have problems with it. 
Didn't have to try recovery from a dead disk also, but should work ok.

It's like "regular" RAID3 but uses sector-sized data chunks.