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Subject: Re: State of gvinum RAID-5
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On 2006/11/15 11:58, Michael L. Squires seems to have typed:
> I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under
> 6.X) but there was nothing about stability.

In my experience gvinum is stable until a drive fails.

Good luck and let us know what happens!