From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 14:18:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C547916A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 14:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108C943D64 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 14:18:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from security@jim-liesl.org) Received: from daemon.jim-liesl.org ([70.33.46.68]) by mta13.adelphia.net ESMTP <20050510141828.XSTA4191.mta13.adelphia.net@daemon.jim-liesl.org>; Tue, 10 May 2005 10:18:28 -0400 Received: from daemon.jim-liesl.org (localhost.clspco.adelphia.net [127.0.0.1]) by daemon.jim-liesl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5598666E4; Tue, 10 May 2005 08:19:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.1.10]) by daemon.jim-liesl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74C36317; Tue, 10 May 2005 08:19:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4280C277.4030904@jim-liesl.org> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:17:27 -0600 From: secmgr User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Brown References: <8b6eae96050510071037d3b6e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b6eae96050510071037d3b6e4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:18:29 -0000 Edwin Brown wrote: >All: > >I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not >worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the >mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the >5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today? > >The plan would be use a 40GB ATA/100 Drive for the system and 4 SATA >drives for the RAID-5 array. Will gvinum be happy with this kind of >arrangement? > Well, you want to stay away from vinum in 5.x. Under 5.3 gvinum and raid 5 was not robust, and I could kill a system and corrupt the array by pulling a drive. I haven't tried lately, but i'd definitly want to do some serious testing before putting that into production. If you really need raid 5, I'd look into a H/W based solution. and yes, I filed PR's that so far have not been answered. jim