Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
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Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-13 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:51:02 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that. Noted. Good to know. :-) Note that the HPT 18x0A have an onboard processor which does the XOR (parity) calculations for RAID-5. For the non-A versions,

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:49:15PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the current documentation and

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-09 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:04:57PM -0700, secmgr wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-09 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Stijn Hoop wrote this message on Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:30 +0100: Besides, I've seen a few hardware RAID controllers having issues themselves (and they weren't the cheapest ones available either). Yep, and because of failure to get proper vender support, software raid is looking more

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to risk it. So, I'm looking at hardware raid 5 controllers. From this list, You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to risk it. IMHO it's pretty stable in 6.0. I've been running gvinum RAID-5 for a while

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:15:48 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components like raid5. What about write performance? Based on RAID3 documentation I have read (on the 'net, so I cannot vouch for the correctness of it), you will get worse write

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to risk it. IMHO it's

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:30:33PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:15:48 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use graid3(8) - it has data+parity components like raid5. What about write performance? Based on RAID3 documentation I have read (on the

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread secmgr
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread Jon Dama
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 Ah, no please complain so that if s/w raid gives you trouble, there will be something to point to when and if people doubt there are still problems