From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 10:50:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8058216A403; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636EA43D76; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:50:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id ABD6745CD9; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F417A45696; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:49:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:49:34 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20060921104934.GB12198@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom - help ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:50:11 -0000 --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:49:20AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >=20 > >Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but= that doesn't appear to be available right now >=20 > 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 th= e drives. Maybe raid3(3=20 > drives for data)+mirror(2 disks for system) will be useful to you (since = you can boot a mirrored drive). >=20 > (note that geom_raid3 is not RAID3 as theoretically defined, but more lik= e RAID4). This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFEm4+ForvXbEpPzQRAgStAJ9JhND2wmHiVOib2XcZkUhDugaqigCguGBv sj/5XLzvS6WppfUE8PWgnDw= =2ORy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pvezYHf7grwyp3Bc--