From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 20 14: 2:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from psknet.com (voyager.psknet.com [63.171.251.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB6E737B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:02:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@psknet.com) Received: (qmail 727 invoked by uid 85); 20 Jun 2001 21:02:15 -0000 Received: from troy@psknet.com by voyager.psknet.com with qmail-scanner-0.95 (uvscan: v4.1.20/v4143. . Clean. Processed in 0.190482 secs); 20 Jun 2001 21:02:15 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: troy@psknet.com via voyager.psknet.com X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: forrestc@imach.com,freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 0.95 (No viruses found. Processed in 0.190482 secs) Received: from arcadia.psknet.com (HELO arcadia) (63.171.251.7) by voyager.psknet.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2001 21:02:15 -0000 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Forrest W. Christian" , Subject: RE: RAID/vinum options (mail server) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:02:26 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Funny post. I just had a drive fail on me today. I'm using an AMI Expres 200 (466) controller, and while the alarm drove me nutz for a while until I could silence it, I was able to pull the bad drive, and the array is still trucking right along. If you like, I'll post an update when I get the new drive installed and the array repaired. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 http://www.psknet.com ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest W. Christian ** Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:15 PM ** To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org ** Subject: RAID/vinum options (mail server) ** ** ** I'm needing to find a RAID solution for our mail server. ** ** This is primarily for data integrity. So the solution MUST be ** robust. In the past I've had raid controllers which freaked at loosing a ** disk and refused to work with the array. Needless to say I was pissed. ** ** I am not opposed to vinum. I would like to hear more about it's ** restrictions specifically in regards to the boot partition (meaning can I ** vinum a slice on the same disk as the root partition) and it's robustness ** on disk failure. The docs for vinum aren't too specific on this, unless ** someone knows of some docs I don't know about. ** ** Cost is an issue but not a really big one (Don't go suggesting a $10k ** controller). Performance is not really an issue. A single IDE drive ** (WD400BB UDMA66) is taking the load now just fine, although the peaks ** (rare) are getting near the theoretical tps max. ** ** Mainly I'm looking for experiences good and bad with different options. ** ** Thanks for the info. ** ** - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 ** http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 ** Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message