actually, I have the same questions, as there are no case studies and no experiences written on the internet.
2013/3/18 Constantine A. Murenin <[email protected]> > On 26 February 2013 12:14, Samuel J. Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > So, `hammer mirror-stream` is the recommended way for redundancy in > place of software RAID, and where hardware RAID is not available? > > Would such a setup support reliable booting from either volume? > > Provided you have lots of RAM (e.g. 8GB or 16GB), is there a way to > ensure that you aren't going to be doing any actual IO on the source > volume when performing the mirroring? > > If you're dealing with regular platter-based HDDs, would you > nonetheless configure the second HDD (which is the target of the > `hammer mirror-stream`) as swapcache? Wouldn't it potentially make > the performance much worse? > > C. >
