From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 08:49:19 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 BC6A116A41F for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:49:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86F843D79 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:48:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66A013B88A; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kweetal.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97434-08; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from umta.win.tue.nl (umta.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.100]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1A713B89E; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002 [131.155.71.72]) by umta.win.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A9631401C; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C7F240BA; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Christian Brueffer Message-ID: <20051209084846.GE912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at 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: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:49:19 -0000 --bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:49:15PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > 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. Ah, I missed that, great :-) --Stijn --=20 Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. --bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmUTuY3r/tLQmfWcRAsi4AJoDkxIobftqa4H2FXQzmXDEyKi/RQCgndt9 Ye7jJK4ojPS4q2WkaNGAO6g= =1ge5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI--