Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:43:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid tool Message-ID: <20081103174229.T10405@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <490F0881.2030809@gmail.com> <200811031009.15922.lists@jnielsen.net>
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> 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 slower with random reads. if he needs it for large files, then it's excellent. > 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. it gives performance of raid3 rather than raid5.
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