Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:59:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20010904225609.U95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010904202136.00dada50@pop3.palace.net>
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Vinum's definitely been the way to go for me. I have a 12 18 GB disk array with Vinum RAID 0 on it, and I've never had a problem. Greg (the author) is also a great support resource. However, it's definitely not the _only_ way to go. I hear quite a few people are using hardware (both IDE and SCSI RAID) controllers in FreeBSD with very good results. I've personally installed FreeBSD 4.3-stable on a Dell PERC RAID controller, and it worked rather nicely. Honestly, I haven't done any speed comparisons between Vinum and hardware RAID. The only downside I have seen is that I don't think you can boot from Vinum yet, where as you can from hardware controllers. Joe On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Walter Betancourt wrote: > To all on this great group. > > I would like to plan on creating a freebsd server with vinum using 4 or 5 > drives, > > but am not sure of the stability of vinum. > > Is vinum THE way to go, or only the way because of cost. > > Your opinion please. > > thanks > > Walt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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