Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:04:57 -0700 From: secmgr <security@jim-liesl.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? Message-ID: <4398CA29.3070602@jim-liesl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> >> >>In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the >>corner (as a result of a SoC project). >> >> > >Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple >of days ago. > >- Christian > > Whatever you do, don't complain about it on this list, or you'll just be told that if you really wanted raid, you should be running SCSI disks and a raid adapter. They may allow that 3ware does ok, but no ATA drive should ever be relied on and even s/w raid on scsi is only for ignorant lusers who are too cheap to do the "right thing". Those who think I run to hyperbole need only visit the archives. One can only hope that gvinum actually works in 6 vs the buggy and incomplete alpha code that shipped in 5.x. Having a man page is nice, but I'd rather have a raid 5 set that didn't panic the system and corrupt the set when it lost a drive (and this with modern scsi drives and adapter). I'd strongly suggest anyone using GEOM raid to do some fault insertion testing of their setup prior to actually relying on it. jim
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