Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-19 21.50, Eric Furman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:04 +, "Kevin Chadwick" >> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 >> Tyler Morgan wrote: >>> I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD >>> and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:04 +, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 > Tyler Morgan wrote: > > > I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD > > and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the power > > supply and the mother

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 Tyler Morgan wrote: > I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD > and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the power > supply and the motherboard going wonky before the SSD. CARP is obviously better but being

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:03 PM, na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote: > Tomas Bodzar wrote: > >> You will not be happy with reliability of SSD >> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal >> e.html > > After lots and lots of useless blather, the first i

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Tyler Morgan
On 6/17/2011 10:03 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Tomas Bodzar wrote: You will not be happy with reliability of SSD http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal e.html After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit shows up in a comment

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Tomas Bodzar wrote: > You will not be happy with reliability of SSD > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal > e.html After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit shows up in a comment more than halfway down the page: | Over at blek

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-06-17, Donald Reichert wrote: > I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of > NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. > > What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I > have two SSDs in each of the machines, my initial pl

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Donald Reichert wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. > > What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I have two SSDs in each of

RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-16 Thread Donald Reichert
Hi list, I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I have two SSDs in each of the machines, my initial planning was to do some RAID-1 in ord