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-----Original Message-----
From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl]=20
Sent: 25 May 2009 18:54
To: Graeme Dargie
Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Howard Jones; Valentin Bud
Subject: RE: FreeBSD & Software RAID

> Ok granted this is a server sat in my house and it is not a "mission"
> critical server in a large business, personally I have can live with
ZFS
> taking a bit longer vs resilience.

simply gmirror and UFS gives the same. much simpler, much faster.

but of course lots of people like to make their life harder

No I am not making life harder at all ... I have 6x500gb hard disks I
want in a good solid raid 5 type configuration. So you are somewhat wide
of the mark in your assumptions.