From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 17:57:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE72737C4FA for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:57:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA63268; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:27:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:27:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Kim J. Brand" Cc: Chris Fedde , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID suggestions Message-ID: <20000604102723.E52148@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200006030530.e535Uo101559@fedde.littleton.co.us> <3.0.1.32.20000602204750.00744d00@192.168.0.1> <200006030530.e535Uo101559@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000603155353.L30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3.0.1.32.20000603150042.00729ebc@192.168.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000603150042.00729ebc@192.168.0.1> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 3 June 2000 at 15:00:42 -0500, Kim J. Brand wrote: > At 03:53 PM 6/3/2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 2 June 2000 at 23:30:50 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: >>> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:47:50 -0500 "Kim J. Brand" wrote: >>> +------------------ >>>> does anyone have any suggestions regarding a medium performance RAID >>>> controller for FreeBSD? >>> +------------------ >>> >>> If you are only looking for "medium" performance I'd go with vinum. >> >> Don't assume that Vinum has lower performance than dedicated RAID >> controllers. We've seen evidence to the contrary, though we need to >> do more investigation. > > i've read some about vinum, courtesy of an exchange i had with greg before. > > is this something that a motivated, (but inexperienced,) software mechanic > could figure out? the white paper i saw lacked a HOWTO or cookbook. > > specifically: i'd like to use FreeBSD V3.4 or V4.; which SCSI adapters are > compatible? This is not a Vinum issue. Read the HARDWARE file for the release. > do i need to remake the kernel or [simply?] add drivers? That's in the man page. Simply start vinum(8), it'll load the kld for you. > does this happen at install time or do you install a generic release > then add the vinum stuff? Currently you install a generic release; we need somebody to work on sysinstall to make it Vinum-aware. > key question: this configuration will be used with customers who buy > this thing because i told them it wouldn't break. can i get the > vinum interface to send me a message periodically regarding system > integrity? Sure. That's what cron is for. If you're using this in production, make sure to get 4-STABLE. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message