FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

[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 now; other than one strange panic (something to do with out of
memory situations, see kern/89660) I haven't had a hitch yet. That
said, I haven't needed to replace a disk yet either (I've demoed this
but it was not yet needed in production use).

In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the
corner (as a result of a SoC project).

--Stijn

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