On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Joel Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > if I want to do soft RAID10 is vinum(8) the way to go? > > The main purpose is to crank up the I/O rate without loosing too much > reliability. > > It is intended for my personal/private file server at home, so a temporary > loss of availability is not an issue (for now, it may change). > > Regards, > Joel
There are various options for software raid in DragonFly but a hardware raid controller is generally considered the most reliable option. Typically though in DragonFly you would hammer mirror-stream between disks for redundancy and utilize swapcache to acheive your throughput needs. Sam
