From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 4 21:28:50 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 4DD7C16A41C for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 21:28:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF9A43D1D for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 21:28:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCE734D435; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE93734D415; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42A21D0A.8050107@cloudview.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:28:42 -0700 From: John Pettitt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Remo.Lacho@verizon.net References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack Cc: Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [lists] RAID-1 as back-up 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: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:28:50 -0000 Remo Lacho wrote: >O > >>> >>> >>> >>Up to a point - beware of geom_mirror with USB and FireWire disks - it's >>temperamental at best and with my FireWire drives simple won't work >>reliably (panic during boot if a rebuild is needed and unrecoverable >>errors during rebuilds). I've just re-done the mirror set on my box >>with gvinum and so far it's looking good - it boots ok and rebuild is a >>lot faster. >> >>This on a 5-STABLE box with a FW800 card a 2x LaCie 500GB bigger disk >>extreme external FW drives. >> >>If this works for my next trick I'll try RAID5 with 4x250gb usb drives. >> >> > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >I feel your pain. :) > >Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you use USB or Firewire drives on a >production server? > > > > It's a home server and the storage is near-line photo archives (I'm a professional photographer) that's also backed up on REV cartridges. I don't need the performance of a multi thousand dollar server box just the storage capacity to host up to a terabyte of images. If I really needed the performace I'd build somthing with SCSI or SATA drives but I just need capacity. Currently the box has: IDE 80 GB main disk (root usr var tmp swap ) 1x250GB FW 400 - scratch storage 2x300GB FW 400 in a gstripe set - storage for BackupPC which covers the desktop boxes. 2x500GB FW 800 (on a separate FW800 controller) - this is going to be the photo archive in a gvinum mirror set. Then I have 4xUSB250GB drives that are not really doing anyting right now and I may build into a RAID5 for future expansion. John