From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 10:45:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37271065674 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be) Received: from hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be [143.129.75.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7278FC1D for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be) Received: from hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA6AW4LY029213 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:32:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (pdon@localhost) by hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id mA6AW440029210 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:32:04 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be: pdon owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:32:04 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche X-X-Sender: pdon@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: raid tool ZFS RAID-Z2 (RAID6) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pieter Donche List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:45:54 -0000 raidz is available for Freebsd through the file system format ZFS and is similar to RAID-5. Is that in FreeBSD 7.0 Production release? But there is also RAID-Z2 which uses two forms of parity to achieve results similar to RAID6: the ability to sustain up to two drive failures without losing data.. Does Freebsd 7.0 production release also support raid-z2?