Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:55:54 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: secmgr <security@jim-liesl.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? Message-ID: <20051209085554.GA942@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <4398CA29.3070602@jim-liesl.org> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> <4398CA29.3070602@jim-liesl.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote: > Christian Brueffer wrote: > > >>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >> > >> > >>In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the > >>corner (as a result of a SoC project). > >> > >> > > > >Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple > >of days ago. > > > >- Christian > > > > > Whatever you do, don't complain about it on this list, or you'll just be > told that if you really wanted raid, you should be running SCSI disks > and a raid adapter. They may allow that 3ware does ok, but no ATA drive > should ever be relied on and even s/w raid on scsi is only for ignorant > lusers who are too cheap to do the "right thing". > > Those who think I run to hyperbole need only visit the archives. One > can only hope that gvinum actually works in 6 vs the buggy and > incomplete alpha code that shipped in 5.x. Having a man page is nice, > but I'd rather have a raid 5 set that didn't panic the system and > corrupt the set when it lost a drive (and this with modern scsi drives > and adapter). I'd strongly suggest anyone using GEOM raid to do some > fault insertion testing of their setup prior to actually relying on it. > Hmm, wasn't that a bug in the 5.3-RELEASE version that was fixed shortly after the release? - Christian -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmUaabHYXjKDtmC0RAkj2AKC1GWUnFADOf3tdjBau1JyFayi2qQCeJduI wSvzlsb3QUQV/dlt87dQbjA= =puWC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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