Posted on 1 November 2008 @ 10:16

Hi, googling for FreeBSD's geom_raid5 status I came accross this page. I see alot of nice work. I've already installed the sources for geom_raid5 and compiled them, loaded the kernel module etc.. all seems to work fine. I still have to buy disks though!

I see the manpages are quite a bit more advanced than the other geom_ manpages, and graid5 seems to have a lot more options.

Anyway, what I'm wondering is in the manpage I see that a graid5 volume can consist of a number of drivers ranging from 2 and upwards. 2 Drives? Wasn't raid5 supposed to run on 3 minimal? I'd guess running a graid5 on 2 disks has no redunancy?

I also came accross the 'expansion' script provided, it's really cool to know that this will also be possible in the future (in fact it is already, very nice) to grow a raid5 set.

Can I find some more elaborate documentation on graid5 other than the manpages on my system? I'd like to see the procedures for replacing a faulty drive as well.

Last but not least, when will graid5 become part of the FreeBSD distribution by default?