FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> 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).
> 

Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple
of days ago.

- Christian

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