From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 9:52:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (cx144844-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.9.137.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E102937B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from velosystems.net (jeeves [192.168.1.6]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 480E35078F; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:52:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:52:55 -0800 From: Steve Wingate To: "Denis J. Cirulis" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum Message-Id: <20020118095255.38bb4ad9.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020118100656.A633@mt.lv> References: <20020118100656.A633@mt.lv> Organization: Velosystems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 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 >so this is RAID 5+1. > >Is such a structure possible with vinum or I must buy hardware raid adapter & SCSI ? //////////////////////////////// I'm still trying to figure out how you got two RAID 5's from the 4 remaining drives, considering RAID 5 takes at least 3 disks per array. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message