Le samedi 22 mai 2010 C 21:38 +0200, Robert a C)crit : > On Sat, 22 May 2010 21:12:00 +0200 > jean-francois <jfsimon1...@gmail.com> 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.) >
It's not SSDs that I'd like to RAID. Thanks. BTW I have an error with the following command bioctl -H 0:0.0 sd0 bioctl: BIOCSETSTATE: Invalid argument Is it normal ?
