> But I will interject one point of interest, and that is the cost factor. > As a friend of mine pointed out to me a few days ago, the cost of > RAID hardware has dropped precipitously over the last 5 years. It is > cheap enough now that one might as well just use it on multi-disk > servers. Hopefully this will result in more and better drive support > in FreeBSD, I sometimes get the feeling that we've dropped behind > in that area.
Mind if I squeak in one little comment on the state of hardware RAID card support...? I wish I could back it up with come code, but I'm just a lowly sysadmin :) (maybe one day, in one way or another) While as far as I can tell RAID card support is quite stable (knock on wood, thanks guys and girls), there's a noticable absence of RAID array control & status reporting software for many types of RAID cards, including my own (NetRAID 3i, amrd driver). For instance, for my particular type of RAID controller I cannot tell if the array has degraded without walking up to the server and seeing amber warning lights.... :( Good thing I'm not using these cards in a colo :) Even a simple syslog message saying "Houston, we have a problem" would be invaluable.. :) Of course I'm definitely not expecting the world, just though I'd point this out :) By the way I'm using either RELENG_4_5 or -stable on my boxes... Oh, and a question: can software RAID mirrors (via vinum) be booted from? (and still booted from if one drive goes down?) Thanks very much, Eric Parusel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
