From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 17 14:36:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0809E37B514; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDC012231; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:36:40 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200002172136.NAA01506@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200002172136.NAA01506@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:49:25 +0100 To: Mike Smith From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Cc: Clifton Royston , Tom , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:36 PM -0800 2000/2/17, Mike Smith wrote: > I'm not at all convinced that any of these controllers (yet) have the > throughput to compete with a well-loaded software-RAID system. It's very > hard to argue with the compute and data-moving power of a small pile of > GHz-class processors, and very hard to put that much power on an add-in > card. That's certainly the argument that Greg has made fairly successfully to me, at least with regards to RAID-0 and RAID-1 (and combinations thereof). However, I'm not yet convinced that RAID-5 under vinum is reliable enough yet to fit into the same category. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message