Remo Lacho wrote:
>O > >>> >>> >>> >>Up to a point - beware of geom_mirror with USB and FireWire disks - it's >>temperamental at best and with my FireWire drives simple won't work >>reliably (panic during boot if a rebuild is needed and unrecoverable >>errors during rebuilds). I've just re-done the mirror set on my box >>with gvinum and so far it's looking good - it boots ok and rebuild is a >>lot faster. >> >>This on a 5-STABLE box with a FW800 card a 2x LaCie 500GB bigger disk >>extreme external FW drives. >> >>If this works for my next trick I'll try RAID5 with 4x250gb usb drives. >> >> > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >I feel your pain. :) > >Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you use USB or Firewire drives on a >production server? > > > > It's a home server and the storage is near-line photo archives (I'm a professional photographer) that's also backed up on REV cartridges. I don't need the performance of a multi thousand dollar server box just the storage capacity to host up to a terabyte of images. If I really needed the performace I'd build somthing with SCSI or SATA drives but I just need capacity. Currently the box has: IDE 80 GB main disk (root usr var tmp swap ) 1x250GB FW 400 - scratch storage 2x300GB FW 400 in a gstripe set - storage for BackupPC which covers the desktop boxes. 2x500GB FW 800 (on a separate FW800 controller) - this is going to be the photo archive in a gvinum mirror set. Then I have 4xUSB250GB drives that are not really doing anyting right now and I may build into a RAID5 for future expansion. John _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"