If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you could
also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum
and slower with random reads.
if he needs it for large files, then it's excellent.
and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has
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New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7.
I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling
says I must use vinum.
there is geom_raid5 available but not integrated with FreeBSD
google,download,compile,use
Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google
sug
> Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read,
> unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram.
I can tell you I'm using ZFS on an i386 desktop with 1 GB RAM and it
is working flawlessly after some tuning, more specifically:
# For ZFS
vm.kmem_size="521M"
vm.kmem_si
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> John Nielsen wrote:
>> If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you
>> could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than
>> gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x
John Nielsen wrote:
If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you could
also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum
and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has
experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in
On Monday 03 November 2008 09:19:45 am Brent Clark wrote:
> New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7.
> I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5.
> Googling says I must use vinum.
You have a few options, but strictly speaking the best-supported way to do
RAID5 in FreeBSD is to use gvinu
