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Subject: Re: vinium
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Sean wrote:
 > I was just wanted to ask if anyone is using vinium on a standalone 
system?
 >
 > I was reading about it in Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD and am
 > wondering if it is something that might be beneficial?

We used vinum on our production server for RAID 1 (2 x 36 GB SCSI) under 
4.x. Everything went fine for 2-3 years, even exchange of one of the 
HDDs that broke.

Now with 5.4 we use gmirror for RAID 1 (2 x 73 GB SCSI). So far 
everything is fine.