opinion on which software RAID to use

[Alec Berryman]

Rink Springer on 2006-03-02 20:30:03 +0100:

> Hi Vivek,
> 
> > Any opinions on which has both qualities: easy to configure/manage  
> > (ie, recover after failure) and performance?  The handbook RAID page  
> > doesn't even mention gmirror.  The atacontrol seems very simple to  
> > use, at least.
> 
> I've had very good results with gmirror. It's very easy to set up,
> performance is good (didn't really benchmark it though) and recovering
> faulty drives is easy to do. Never had a problem with it ...

I'll second gmirror.  An excellent tutorial may be found at
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/.
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