Vallo Kallaste wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:33:55PM +0100, Eirik �verby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK I see, makes sense. So it's not really a raid3 issue, but an implementation issue.
The only problem then is - gvinum being in a completely unusable state (for raid5 anyway), what are my alternatives? I have four 160gb IDE drives, and I want capacity+redundancy. Performance is a non-issue, really. What do I do - in software?
Submit code is the standard answer. Vinum and now gvinum (I have not tried the latter, your words) have never had reliable RAID-5 implementation. That is my experience only. Yes I am frustrated about current state of FreeBSD and because of such state I'm forced to use other OS's, for reliability reasons. For a person who's been with FreeBSD since 2.0.5 that's sad future, but nevertheless I'm unsubscribing from the remaining FreeBSD lists until things (hopefully) improve and to save you all from further rants.
That is not completely fair for vinum....
I've been running vinum now for the better of 3-4 years, and even with a set of very flaky seagate IDE drives I never lost a byte.
Vinum has served me well, and I trust gvinum will get there as well.
I just left my fileserver at 5.1, which I know is not an option for everybody.
--WjW
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