Re: How to do a software based RAID 1+0?

[Joel Nilsson <joel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What are the other options, LVM? I cannot get the solution with natacontrol to work according to the wiki guide; does not find any channels/devices to use it on (my disks are identified as /dev/da*).

I know, but hardware RAID controllers are quite expensive. However, if I find something interesting at the second hand market I will go for it.

Okey, I already have a SSD installed for swapcache, so it will improve the throughput that much?

/Joel

On 26 feb 2013, at 21:14, Samuel J. Greear <sjg@evilcode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Joel Nilsson <joel@alikzus.se> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> if I want to do soft RAID10 is vinum(8) the way to go?
>> 
>> The main purpose is to crank up the I/O rate without loosing too much reliability.
>> 
>> It is intended for my personal/private file server at home, so a temporary loss of availability is not an issue (for now, it may change).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Joel
> 
> There are various options for software raid in DragonFly but a
> hardware raid controller is generally considered the most reliable
> option.
> 
> Typically though in DragonFly you would hammer mirror-stream between
> disks for redundancy and utilize swapcache to acheive your throughput
> needs.
> 
> Sam