Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:43:42 -0800 From: "Kent Ketell" <kketell@juniper.net> To: "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RAID Controllers Supported? Message-ID: <001901be2873$fba3aaf0$e4504fcf@bilbo.juniper.net> In-Reply-To: <366E364F.94D38EBC@tdx.co.uk>
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The issue for us is more of notification in case of a failure. The DPT solution does not appear to provide this at all, other than the alarm. I was hoping for some form of syslog activity, but my testing did not produce a single syslog entry post boot. I setup two raids on a single controller; one called apples (Raid-1) and the other called oranges (Raid-5). I setup the system with a single hot-spare. I started a really large cvs checkout onto the raid-5 filesystem and yanked one of the drives. The hot-spare came into play perfectly, but there was no indication at the operating system level that anything untoward had happened. This is not good. Does anyone have a pointer to make the syslog work, or should I look elsewhere for my Raid solutions? -Kent- > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Pielorz [mailto:kpielorz@tdx.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 12:35 AM > To: Greg Lehey > Cc: Kent Ketell; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: RAID Controllers Supported? > > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Also (as Karl well knows) there's Vinum, a software RAID driver. It's > > not what you asked for, but it may be what you want :-) > > > > Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. > > True, but I guess it all boils down to whether you want to boot > off the RAID > partition or not - for our production system this was important... > > If you need it bootable from RAID go with the hardware, if that's > not a major > requirement certainly look at Vinum (which will be bootable at > some point in > the future ;-) > > Regards, > > Karl > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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