From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 00:05:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAF916A4DA for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:05:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter_giessel@dot.state.ak.us) Received: from jnumail1.state.ak.us (jnumail1.state.ak.us [146.63.81.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBADC43D45 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:05:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter_giessel@dot.state.ak.us) Received: from smtpj.state.ak.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jnumail1.state.ak.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.04 (built Feb 8 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J1Y00JADG9D9M@jnumail1.state.ak.us> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:05:37 -0800 (AKDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([158.145.111.132]) by smtpj.state.ak.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.04 (built Feb 8 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J1Y00EU2G9BMO@smtpj.state.ak.us>; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:05:35 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:05:36 -0800 From: "Peter A. Giessel" In-reply-to: <44AC5190.9070001@caltech.edu> To: Jeremy Ehrhardt Message-id: <44AC53D0.80401@dot.state.ak.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) References: <44AC5190.9070001@caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum stability? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:05:40 -0000 On 7/5/2006 15:56, Jeremy Ehrhardt seems to have typed: > 3: would I be better off using a different RAID 5 system on another OS? You would be best off with a 3ware card (www.3ware.com) running RAID 5 (hardware raid >> software raid). It works great in FreeBSD and is *very* stable and fault tolerant.