Edwin Brown wrote:
All:
I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not
worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the
mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the
5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today?
The plan would be use a 40GB ATA/100 Drive for the system and 4 SATA
drives for the RAID-5 array. Will gvinum be happy with this kind of
arrangement?
Well, you want to stay away from vinum in 5.x. Under 5.3 gvinum and
raid 5 was not robust, and I could kill a system and corrupt the array
by pulling a drive. I haven't tried lately, but i'd definitly want to
do some serious testing before putting that into production. If you
really need raid 5, I'd look into a H/W based solution.
and yes, I filed PR's that so far have not been answered.
jim
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