Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:48:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0? Message-ID: <20010103214829.X4336@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010103102943.A770@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:29:44AM %2B0000 References: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun> <20010103102943.A770@tao.org.uk>
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On Wednesday, 3 January 2001 at 10:29:44 +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:01:07PM +0100, Thomas Seck wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> sorry if this is OT for -stable, but I followed the discussion about >> vinum in here and got a bit worried. >> >> I am currently deploying a proxy server for our company. It shall use >> squid on 4.2-STABLE. I would like to put the cache data on a vinum RAID >> 0, made of three U160 disks. As I understood the discussion so far, >> there are some unresolved problems with the raid 5 code. Could someone >> tell me whether I can safely use vinum for building a raid 0 system >> (despite the fact that the HW may be a point of failure of course)? > > As far as I'm aware there are no problems using vinum for raid 0. > > As far as I understand from Greg he's not aware of many people who > are having problems with raid 5. Probably. If you know of somebody I don't know of, please let me know. > As one of the small minority who was having problems I'd advice you > to soaktest any vinum raid 5 installation before committing > important data to it. That's what vinum(4) says. Greg -- 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-stable" in the body of the message
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