From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 12:42:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FA616A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:42:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B399D43D70 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:42:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 28483 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2005 22:42:11 +1000 Received: from 203-217-79-78.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.217.79.78) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Aug 2005 22:42:11 +1000 Message-ID: <43130299.6000803@meijome.net> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:42:01 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Recommended Software RAID-5 on dual-amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:42:22 -0000 Hi all, I have a dual Opteron box built with http://tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891_spec.html , using 4 identical SATA drives. I plan to use FBSD 6 (installing beta2, cvsup to head). I will use gmirror to RAID-1 the boot partition, and RAID-5 for the remainder. I was wondering which is the best option for software RAID5. GVinum? geom_raid5 (is there such thing yet?) I'd love to use a geom-only solution if possible, is gvinum fully GEOM-compatible? thanks in advance, Beto