Software RAID guidance

[Ian Jefferson]

I have been uable to get vinum to work under 6.0.  I'm no expert though.

Vinum became gvinum in 6.0 and is implemented using geom.

Recently the gvinum man page has been updated and it available in 6.1
RC-1.

I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages.  It
seems as though geom is the way of the future but does not currently
support R5 which is what I was looking for.

Somewhere out there is a pretty comprehensive set of iozone benchmarks
comparing linux and BSD software Raid.  Ah found it:
http://www25.big.jp/~jam/filesystem/old/

This might give you some ideas.

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
> controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
> and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
> controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded FreeBSD 6.0
> onto the two IBM drives. Now, I wanted to mirror the other two for data
> and looking for guidance as to whether it is first of all suited for
> software RAID and if so, CCD or vinum. I am contemplating vinum because
> the handbook mentions CCD is when cost is the important factor and for
> me, is reliability. What would someone suggest? If vinum, one thing I
> don't quite understand is do I create the partitions to be used in the
> device? There doesn't seem to be a man for gvinum and the link to it in
> the handbook section 19.6.1 is broken.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Robert
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>