Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:19:43 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum stability? Message-ID: <200607051919.43626.jhorne@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <44AC53D0.80401@dot.state.ak.us> References: <44AC5190.9070001@caltech.edu> <44AC53D0.80401@dot.state.ak.us>
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On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:05, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ i have a 3ware card in my production server running a RAID5, and its never skipped a beat. if you dont buy a raid card (with 6 or more channels), try breaking the usage up. put the system partitions on one controller, and build a 4 disk raid5 on the other, and see if it behaves differently (ie, remove the cross-controller-raid from the equation and see what happens). cheers, jonathahn
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