From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 11:56:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164D716A55B; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from mailhost.tao.org.uk (transwarp.tao.org.uk [87.74.4.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D4F13C45A; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (wireless58.dhcp.tao.org.uk [87.74.4.58]) by mailhost.tao.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EBE5F26; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 77E1D40C6; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:50 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070115115650.GB2304@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org References: <20070115112106.GA2304@genius.tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H1spWtNR+x+ondvy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070115112106.GA2304@genius.tao.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Subject: Re: Dell hardware raid 0 (sas5ir) or gmirror? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:54 -0000 --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:21:06AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm purchasing a new server, and was wondering what anyone thought about > whether to pay extra for the SAS5IR card so I can RAID0 the two drives, > or whether to just rely on gmirror. My worry about the former is that I > can't seem to find management tools for controlling the hardware > controller. What if one of the drives fails? How would I know? >=20 Of course I mean RAID1! J. --=20 =3D=3D=3D Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) =3D=3D=3D http://x2obuilder.com= /tao =3D=3D=3D --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkWrbAIACgkQXVIcjOaxUBa1KQCgyM6zi+c0POXl/wkmzFMo3AaA gIcAn1JaMcGHqX7z0xSty3GUERWfIwNX =g8mj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy--