Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:19:29 +0200 From: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid tool Message-ID: <490F1681.5020607@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <490F0881.2030809@gmail.com> <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you could > also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum > and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has > experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in ports). > That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good features > of raid5 and none of the bad. I use it and it works well but you will > need to do some reading and some manual tuning of your system. You'll > also want a system with plenty of RAM and preferrably running > FreeBSD-amd64 (vs FreeBSD-i386). > > If you want to look in to RAID1 or RAID1+0 see geom_mirror and > geom_stripe, also in the base system. > > JN Hiya Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. Thanks again. Regards Brent Clark
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