FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> 
> >>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >>   
> >>
> >>In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the
> >>corner (as a result of a SoC project).
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple
> >of days ago.
> >
> >- Christian
> > 
> >
> Whatever you do, don't complain about it on this list, or you'll just be 
> told that if you really wanted raid, you should be running SCSI disks 
> and a raid adapter.  They may allow that 3ware does ok, but no ATA drive 
> should ever be relied on and even s/w raid on scsi is only for ignorant 
> lusers who are too cheap to do the "right thing".
> 
> Those who think I run to hyperbole need only visit the archives.  One 
> can only hope that gvinum actually works in 6 vs the buggy and 
> incomplete alpha code that shipped in 5.x.  Having a man page is nice, 
> but I'd rather have a raid 5 set that didn't panic the system and 
> corrupt the set when it lost a drive (and this with modern scsi drives 
> and adapter).  I'd strongly suggest anyone using GEOM raid to do some 
> fault insertion testing of their setup prior to actually relying on it.
> 

Hmm, wasn't that a bug in the 5.3-RELEASE version that was fixed shortly
after the release?

- Christian

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