On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 08:51 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, > >> FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into > >> the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the
... > definitely a difference. Thanks! > > Another (related) question: both gvinum and the geom utilities like > gmirror and gstripe etc provide for RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. Any > advantages/ disadvantages of using one instead of the other? It depends greatly upon your application and needs. A common practice in a common 6-disk capable server is to use a RAID1 set of smaller capacity, faster speed/RPM disks for RAID1 for the "system" file systems, while using a combination of larger, slower disks in a RAID1 set, then RAID0'd together for both space, performance, and redundancy. RAID1+0. ~BAS _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
