Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.232.136.71!venus.os.com!news.os.com!see From: see@my.sig (Craig Shrimpton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What are options for RAID with FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:10:19 -0500 Organization: Orbit Systems Lines: 21 Message-ID: <see-ya023180001201970010190001@news.os.com> References: <5b4nd1$erc@itchy.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.os.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33767 In article <5b4nd1$erc@itchy.serv.net>, zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) wrote: > I'm evaluating RAID systems, and I'd like to know what level of support > is currently available for RAID under FreeBSD. I need level 1 at the > very least, preferably level 5. (I realize RAID 0 is emulated by CCD.) > Specifically, I want to have a running system keep running even if > the disk dies and needs to be hot-swapped and rebuilt. > I'm sure RAID 0 is not what you want but for the record I've been using the ccd drivers on a news spool for about 6 months without a hitch. Very stable, makes a BIG disk, and relatively easy to setup. I have not really seen any perceptible performance gains but that may be just the nature of running 65K interleaves for news. -Craig -- THIS TAG NOT TO BE REMOVED UNDER PENALTY OF LAW EXCEPT BY THE CONSUMER --- craigs@os.com