On 2003.04.10 16:23, Caffeinate The World wrote:
> If you have experience in using RAIDFrame in production, I'd like to
> know what your thoughts are. 

All the servers I run (about 10) are completely mirrored
with RAIDFrame (/, /usr, /var, /home, swap )

I've never had troubles with it.

> 
> I hear it is CPU intensive, how intensive is it?

I don't think there is a noticable CPU load with RAIDFrame.

> 
> What do you use for hot swappables with NetBSD? Any power down
> necessary?
None. There's usually there's not enough money to buy
SCSI gear...
I have to shutdown the systems, replace the disks
and rebuild.

> 
> Which RAID do you use and for what application?

RAID1 on all filesystems and swap.

Regards
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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