>>The only problem then is - gvinum being in a completely unusable state >>(for raid5 anyway), what are my alternatives? I have four 160gb IDE >>drives, and I want capacity+redundancy. Performance is a non-issue, >>really. What do I do - in software?
What's unusable about it? I've 4 250GB ATA drives, desiring capacity + redundancy, but don't care about speed, much like you, and gvinum raid 5 has suited me just fine this past few weeks. Eats a lot of system cpu when there is heavy IO to the R5, but I've booted up with a drive unplugged and it worked fine in degraded mode, so I'm content... > Vinum and now gvinum (I have not tried the latter, your words) have > never had reliable RAID-5 implementation. That is my experience only. ? This is the first I've heard of such problems? Vinum has served me well in the past, although I've never used Raid-5 before... If there are known bugs, I'd appreciate someone sending me a link to where I can read more. Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
