Em Ter, 2011-07-26 às 08:48 +0200, DA Forsyth escreveu: > Hi all > > I am busy putting together a new server. I want to avoid using the > motherboards raid 'hardware' (intel matrix raid) and rather do it all > in software so if anything goes wrong with the motherboard, the > drives can work in some other box. > > I have 4x 1TB drives available for the main data array. > graid3 can only use 3 > graid5 can use all 4, but is it production ready? > any ideas? > > The advantage of using graid3 at this point is that the extra 1TB > drive I have can then go into the backup server which needs more > space anyway. > > Having suffered data loss on the previous raid5 (intel matrix) array > when UFS went bananas due to one drive failing, I am looking at > solutions/preventatives. Will gjournal be useful? > > Thanks >
I prefer ZFS.. all my servers (about 100... ) are running with zfs now (8.2 amd64)... dual drivers of 1TB or 2TB each... I have had some driver dying.. but no loss of data thanks to zfs mirror... Sergio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"