From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 10:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 305E245C3 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 97664 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2000 18:40:53 -0000 Received: from joff.vc.net (HELO ?209.239.239.22?) (209.239.239.22) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2000 18:40:53 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:40:54 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jon Rust Subject: Vinum questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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