Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:28:22 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid tool Message-ID: <20081103152822.GA23251@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <490F1681.5020607@gmail.com> References: <490F0881.2030809@gmail.com> <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net> <490F1681.5020607@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > John Nielsen wrote: >> If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you >> could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than >> gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has >> experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in >> ports). That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good >> features of raid5 and none of the bad. I use it and it works well but >> you will need to do some reading and some manual tuning of your system. >> You'll also want a system with plenty of RAM and preferrably running >> FreeBSD-amd64 (vs FreeBSD-i386). >> >> If you want to look in to RAID1 or RAID1+0 see geom_mirror and >> geom_stripe, also in the base system. >> >> JN > > Hiya > > Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, > unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. You can use ZFS on i386 and with 1GB RAM. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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