On Sat, 22 May 2010 21:12:00 +0200 jean-francois <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in > 'small production' (personal servers for home use actually) ? > > I had understood that as of 4.5 and before the softraid was still > under lot of development, so my question. > > Thanks & Regards > > Jean-FranC'ois > Yes, softraid works fine, haven't had any problems so far. But be aware that afaik the metadata might still be changed again in the future. In that case a full dump/upgrade/restore cycle is nessasary. Should not be an issue if you can deal with the "extended" downtime on upgrade. Your data should be backed up anyway. (Note, if that is related to your question about ssd's, atm data in softraid partitions will not align with the eraseblocks, because of the metadata block size; Also an issue on 4k sector drives.)
