Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Michael L. Squires wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/11/15 11:58, Michael L. Squires seems to have typed: I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. In my experience gvinum is stable until a drive fails. Good luck and let us know what happens!

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-13 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hi, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. I agree. Now I will have to

State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-10 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. Now I will have to upgrade