RAID 5 Support

[Toomas Aas]

Hi!

> I've looked at Vinum and it doesn't appear to support "true" RAID 5--but 
> rather uses a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 to provide redundancy.

Hmm. One of my servers has a following Vinum volume defined:

drive drive0 device /dev/da0s1e
drive drive1 device /dev/da1s1e
drive drive2 device /dev/da2s1d
volume ftp
        plex org raid5 128k
                sd length 8248900s drive drive0
                sd length 8248900s drive drive1
                sd length 8248900s drive drive2

Until today I was under impression that this *is* RAID5. Am I wrong?
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