From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 00:19:50 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 5FE6B16A4DF for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.int.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DBC43D66 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:19:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.int.dfwlp.com (athena.int.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.int.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k660Jhfd044915 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:19:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:19:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44AC5190.9070001@caltech.edu> <44AC53D0.80401@dot.state.ak.us> In-Reply-To: <44AC53D0.80401@dot.state.ak.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607051919.43626.jhorne@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on zeus.int.dfwlp.com 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 00:19:50 -0000 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