From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 18:08:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EF91065673 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nejc@skoberne.net) Received: from mail.tnode.com (common.tnode.com [91.185.203.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990908FC14 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nejc@skoberne.net) Received: from localhost (mail.jail [10.1.1.10]) by mail.tnode.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32B321FBEAD; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:08:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.tnode.com ([10.1.1.10]) by localhost (mail.tnode.com [10.1.1.10]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87563-02; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:08:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.123.100] (lk.84.20.249.154.dc.cable.static.lj-kabel.net [84.20.249.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: nejc@skoberne.net) by mail.tnode.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C493621FBE9D; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:08:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49342833.4070904@skoberne.net> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:08:51 +0100 From: Nejc Skoberne User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter B References: <200812011645.mB1GjBWj016342@brother.ludd.ltu.se> In-Reply-To: <200812011645.mB1GjBWj016342@brother.ludd.ltu.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:08:55 -0000 Hey Peter, > Is it vinum or gvinum (geom8) that is the utility to create a RAID5 volume..? > Things like that gvinum lacks the 'stop' command etc.. makes me think > that it's not production ready or that the source code has not matured enough. actually gvinum is production-ready, it only doesn't implement all the features of vinum. I've been using since 2006 and it works, but it is slow. I just played with it this weekend again, you can check http://nejc.skoberne.net/2008/11/gmirror-and-gvinum-on-the-same-drives/. However, as I said, gvinum is slow. I also run graid5 and some say it is pretty stable. I've been running it for a year on a non-production server and it works for me, but haven't seen it in action, when a drive fails or something. It is fast, though. See it's page on Wikipedia for more info. I'd use it more if it was part of official FreeBSD release, but for now it is only available as a patch (AFAIK). Bye, Nejc