From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 20:16:56 2006 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 266D916A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alec@thened.net) Received: from empmail.bowdoin.edu (empmail.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA8F43D45 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:16:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alec@thened.net) Received: from shredder.bowdoin.edu ([139.140.181.133]) by empmail.bowdoin.edu (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.01 (built Jun 24 2004)) with ESMTPP id <0IVI00B0DOC66M30@empmail.bowdoin.edu> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:16:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by shredder.bowdoin.edu (Postfix, from userid 12008) id 86DC9C85B; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:16:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:16:54 +0000 From: Alec Berryman In-reply-to: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20060302201654.GB1054@thened.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-disposition: inline X-Ned-Wuz-Here: Yes X-GPG-Fingerprint: 3DB5 8785 53D9 8BF4 5049 B6B9 02E7 7FD9 881C 85C4 X-GPG-Key-ID: 881C85C4 References: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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 20:16:56 -0000 --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rink Springer on 2006-03-02 20:30:03 +0100: > Hi Vivek, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 ... I'll second gmirror. An excellent tutorial may be found at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/. --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEB1K2Aud/2YgchcQRArM2AJ0apwYxKJVBp5vL3EP7vSsHwNMlwwCfechl HBflafoyAgezNdo3KPvquuk= =PMDT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gj572EiMnwbLXET9--