Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:49:34 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom - help ... Message-ID: <20060921104934.GB12198@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <eetn79$eu5$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org> <eetn79$eu5$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:49:20AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but that doesn't appear to be available right now > > Maybe you could try geom_raid3 instead? It's pretty nice, especially for databases. The only caveat is that you cannot boot off it if you use all the drives. Maybe raid3(3 > drives for data)+mirror(2 disks for system) will be useful to you (since you can boot a mirrored drive). > > (note that geom_raid3 is not RAID3 as theoretically defined, but more like RAID4). This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFEm4+ForvXbEpPzQRAgStAJ9JhND2wmHiVOib2XcZkUhDugaqigCguGBv sj/5XLzvS6WppfUE8PWgnDw= =2ORy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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