Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:34:20 +0200 From: "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@mt.lv> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20020118113420.A7427@mt.lv> In-Reply-To: <20020118200010.J11784@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:00:10PM %2B1030 References: <20020118100656.A633@mt.lv> <20020118200010.J11784@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:00:10PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 18 January 2002 at 10:06:56 +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > > Hello, list! > > > > I'm planning to make low cost solution for network storage. > > I've 5 EIDE drives which I plan to connect w/ RAID 5 with vinum. > > > > 1 drive is system drive and all the rest are 2 RAID 5 arrays which are mirrored > > OK > > so this is RAID 5+1. > > If you say so. > > > Is such a structure possible with vinum > > It's possible, but I don't understand why you want this configuration. I want to have a box which will store data for 5 subnets of workstations and I need reliable solution. Of course I can make stripe of first pair disks and a stripe of second pair and the I can mirror those. Is it good or bad ? I need performance and a bit of fault tolerance > > or I must buy hardware raid adapter & SCSI ? > > No. -- 4.4 - number of the beastie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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