From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 19:51:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 4C84A16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6D143D73 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:51:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IR700AL532Y1R@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.3/8.13.3/1) with ESMTP id jB8JnjjU000348; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from lorien.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92] helo=haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1EkRlx-0001Ut-Rb; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:45 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8B7B03F412; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:15 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> To: Stijn Hoop Message-id: <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:51:31 -0000 --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the > > current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to > > risk it. >=20 > IMHO it's pretty stable in 6.0. I've been running gvinum RAID-5 for a > while now; other than one strange panic (something to do with out of > memory situations, see kern/89660) I haven't had a hitch yet. That > said, I haven't needed to replace a disk yet either (I've demoed this > but it was not yet needed in production use). >=20 > In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the > corner (as a result of a SoC project). >=20 Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple of days ago. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmI47bHYXjKDtmC0RArSLAJ0d7GeOTHzqajbAPAghrBG8xUDYkACgpHR0 EsJhfaAW8sjm8EpLqLon7t4= =+MmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ--