From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 20:55:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAFD16A417 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:55:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from rader.servnow.com (rader.servnow.com [69.93.129.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8207043D5C for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from [74.129.224.81] (helo=DHCP-74-129-224-81.insightbb.com) by rader.servnow.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.52) id 1GkRmy-0006lo-IF; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:55:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:58:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Felix 'buebo' Kakrow In-Reply-To: <20061110170729.5414df98@gwen.pulp-friction.local> Message-ID: <20061115155418.R23325@familysquires.net> References: <20061110170729.5414df98@gwen.pulp-friction.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - rader.servnow.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - siralan.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of gvinum RAID-5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:55:27 -0000 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > Hello List, > I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 > was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid > worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was > somewhere between very painful and not possible. > > Now I will have to upgrade hardware soon, which means I could switch > from NetBSD (and Raidframe) to FreeBSD (with gvinum) again. I would > like to because NetBSD seems to have some kind of memory leak in > connection with Samba and large or many files, but I'd rather have a > somewhat unstable Samba than an unstable Raid, so what's the state of > affairs? > > Cheers > Felix I'm about to try; I have my home server stuck at 4.11 because I could never get gvinum to work reliably with 5.x, and the drives I had wouldn't work with two different hardware RAID controllers (ex EMC ST446xxx's, a DPT/Adaptec controller and a LSI controller - apparently only certain EMC BIOS versions will work, and I don't have them). I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. Mike Squires UNIX(tm) at home since 1986