Multiple choices for RAID-0, best performance?

[Søren Schmidt]

Brad Knowles wrote:

>     My understanding is that regular vinum won't work on 5.x, you need 
> geom-vinum for that.  Recent postings from Søren have lead me to believe 
> that none of the ataraid stuff works with 5.x, either -- you can use 
> them as plain ATA controllers, but the RAID stuff has not yet been 
> worked out.

Wrong, ataraid works fine on 5.x.

However there are some ATA software RAID setups that I havn't done the 
metadata code for yet, but they'll get there eventually time permitting. 
You can always use atacontrol to setup a RAID on *any* ATA 
disk/controller setup, however you will need a BIOS with a known 
metadata layout (Promise/Highpoint) to be able to boot from it (se man 
atacontrol(1) for details)..


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-Søren