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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:59:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com>
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Subject: Re: vinum
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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
>
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