I'd take a look at vinum, the software RAID array. Performance seems as good
as hardware-based RAID solutions.
Under 5.1-RELEASE I've been told that the boot partition can be on a vinum
volume; in 4.8 that's not possible but I've used extra space to create several
duplicate boot partitions.
I've
> Greetings,
> I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents
> and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and
> backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a solution.
>
> I thought that RAID 5 would be the ticket, but after reading up on i
While RAID5 gives efficient use of disk space for situations where you have
5 drives, its NOT a substitute for backups nor is it necessarily the best
thing to use depending on the application. Writes for example are VERY
slow and depending on the card, direct reads can not be that great
eithe
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:26:19AM -0500 or thereabouts, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> Greetings,
> I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents
> and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and
> backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a soluti
Greetings,
I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents
and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and
backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a solution.
I thought that RAID 5 would be the ticket, but after reading up on it,
maybe no
