From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 17:17:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB6F37B71A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:17:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C54B26ACB7; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:47:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:47:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Message-ID: <20010404094731.A67096@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3AC986CA.22038A9A@weyrich.com> <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee>; from vallo@matti.ee on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:28:12PM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 3 April 2001 at 14:28:12 +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0700, "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." wrote: > >> I happen to have come by six identical 4.3 GB SCSI hard drives, and was >> wondering about an inexpensive way to make a FreeBSD server that uses >> them. My manual on FreeBSD covers version 3.2 -- I realize there are >> newer versions, but my search of the FreeBSD web site doesn't turn up my >> answer. >> >> Is there a way to implement RAID-5 with a couple standard SCSI >> controllers (the kind at eBay for under $100) or do I need to buy a >> specialized RAID-5 controller card? >> >> Am I asking for too much? :-) If it isn't too much, where do I go from >> here? > > You can use vinum volume manager, look at > http://www.vinumvm.org/ > > Use recent -stable for implementing vinum and beware that RAID-5 is > considered somewhat buggy, at least that's what I gather from > postings in the lists. A couple of bugs have surfaced in the RAID-5 code recently. I have committed fixes for one, and the other is fixed but not committed. > Use two controllers, three disks each. That depends on the controllers. You could get away with one. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message