Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:40:54 -0800 From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum questions Message-ID: <v04210123b4c8b1545f95@[209.239.239.22]>
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I'm building a new web server. I've decided to use Vinum instead of hardware-based RAID. I have 1 9G boot drive (/ and /usr), and 4 9G drives to build the vinum RAID (/usr/home). They are all IBM Ultrastar 18es U2W's sitting on an Adaptec 2940 U2W. My 2 choices: 1) Stripe and mirror. Gives 18G of storage, and best performance that still has protection against drive failure. Not the most efficient use of my drives, however. 2) RAID-5 all 4 of the drives in one volume. 27G of storage. Decent performance. But... stability of RAID-5 in vinum? The only thing stopping me from using RAID-5 is that I've seen a few messages pass through here claiming vinum RAID-5 wasn't quite ready for primetime. What's the current picture like? Is it ready to go? Or should I just go with the RAID 0+1 and live with the (relatively) inefficient use of drives? Thanks, jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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