From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 19:32:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 2714A16A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:32:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rink@charm.il.fontys.nl) Received: from mail.unilogicnetworks.net (mail-out.unilogicnetworks.net [62.133.192.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BFD43D46 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:32:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rink@charm.il.fontys.nl) Received: from mail.il.fontys.nl (mx0.il.fontys.nl [194.26.13.7]) by mail.unilogicnetworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF47EF143; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:32:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.il.fontys.nl (Postfix/VSRI) with ESMTP id 64A1C17042; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:37:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.il.fontys.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sukke.il.fontys.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87581-02; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:37:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from charm.il.fontys.nl (charm.il.fontys.nl [194.26.13.34]) by mail.il.fontys.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:37:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by charm.il.fontys.nl (Postfix, from userid 1678) id DB5B840B5; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:30:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:30:03 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: Vivek Khera Message-ID: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://rink.nu/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at il.fontys.nl Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: opinion on which software RAID to use 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: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:32:25 -0000 --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Vivek, > Any opinions on which has both qualities: easy to configure/manage =20 > (ie, recover after failure) and performance? The handbook RAID page =20 > doesn't even mention gmirror. The atacontrol seems very simple to =20 > use, at least. I've had very good results with gmirror. It's very easy to set up, performance is good (didn't really benchmark it though) and recovering faulty drives is easy to do. Never had a problem with it ... --=20 Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Richter: Tribute? You steal men's souls, and make them your slaves! Dracula: Perhaps the same could be said of all religions." - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEB0e7b3O60uztv/8RAiOLAJoDkXlomJHYWgApmNyhaUFoma5avgCgkKeO tyNi/xHb8c9VsQ+9V6KrKPA= =VpZc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--