From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 15:28:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB981065680 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:28:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2988FC0C for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:28:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id adwv1a06l0ldTLk57fTxEP; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:28:00 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id afUP1a0052P6wsM3QfUPDC; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:28:24 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=BR70olvxHpEn-JQxuE4A:9 a=O9y3NvdfyzzylShzvb7FMX4DklwA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D227AC9419; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:28:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:28:22 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Brent Clark Message-ID: <20081103152822.GA23251@icarus.home.lan> References: <490F0881.2030809@gmail.com> <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net> <490F1681.5020607@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490F1681.5020607@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid tool 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, 03 Nov 2008 15:28:29 -0000 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 |