From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 17: 3:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDB315A0C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA27872; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:32:31 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA01121; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:32:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:32:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Known "hot swap" RAID configurations for 'BSD. Message-ID: <19990825093227.W83273@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37C2D178.64B913FD@csl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37C2D178.64B913FD@csl.com>; from Adam Nealis on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 06:08:08PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 24 August 1999 at 18:08:08 +0100, Adam Nealis wrote: > A group in my company wish to have a web server installed. It's > going to be used as a web server + e-commerce using our own > homegrown solution that uses MySQL + apache + perl/CGI to serve the > pages, manage the database and take people's money. It must satisfy > at least the following requirements: > > o good performance > o maybe >1 CPU > o 256 - 512MB RAM > o reliable hardware > o reliable software > o RAID - preferably "hot-swappable". > > It's connected to the world at 2MB/s shared. Because it's not > carrying much data at the moment I don't need a fantastically large > RAID disk array. > > Of course I'd love to use FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, so can anyone > recommend a good set-up? Perhaps someone has a similar configuration > that works for them and they could recommend it. And of course they > want it yesterday. > > Due to my HP-UX 10 past I fell in love with their LVM stuff, so I'd > like to use vinum. Is vinum stable enough yet? (last time I checked > it was considered beta, though I know some people have had few/no > problems) It's been a long time since Vinum was considered beta (or even Release Candidate :-). The driver part is pretty stable, but the configuration management is still a little suspect. This basically means that you can shoot yourself in the foot with it if you try. Early versions of VERITAS had the same problem. This shouldn't affect the reliability of the product. > Can I use it with any hot-swap drive/controller sombo' reliably? There shouldn't be any problem with that. I need to add some functionality for replacing drives: at the moment you need to re-disklabel the replacement drive and save configuration manually. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message