From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 20:35:19 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 7A84716A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:35:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate2.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D733643D48 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate2.punkt.de with ESMTP id k22KZHam029955 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:35:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k22KZGoI028495; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:35:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k22KZG2e028494; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:35:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:35:16 +0100 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Rink Springer Message-ID: <20060302203516.GA28378@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: Vivek Khera , 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 20:35:19 -0000 Hi, all! On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:30:03PM +0100, Rink Springer wrote: > 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 ... Seconded. Go, read Ralf Engelschall's great instructions on how to setup a gmirror system drive: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200502/diskmirror.html IMHO this should be put somewhere more prominent. It could easily replace this section in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de