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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:34:20 +0200
From:      "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@mt.lv>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: vinum
Message-ID:  <20020118113420.A7427@mt.lv>
In-Reply-To: <20020118200010.J11784@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:00:10PM %2B1030
References:  <20020118100656.A633@mt.lv> <20020118200010.J11784@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:00:10PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 18 January 2002 at 10:06:56 +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> > Hello, list!
> >
> > I'm planning to make low cost solution for network storage.
> > I've 5 EIDE drives which I plan to connect w/ RAID 5 with vinum.
> >
> > 1 drive is system drive and all the rest are 2 RAID 5 arrays which are mirrored
> 
> OK
> > so this is RAID 5+1.
> 
> If you say so.
> 
> > Is such a structure possible with vinum
> 
> It's possible, but I don't understand why you want this configuration.

I want to have a box which will store data for 5 subnets of workstations and I need reliable solution.
Of course I can make stripe of first pair disks and a stripe of second pair and the I can mirror those.

Is it good or bad ? I need performance and a bit of fault tolerance
 
> > or I must buy hardware raid adapter & SCSI ?
> 
> No.

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