Comments on: RAIDFrame – any takers?

By: Freddie Cash

Freddie Cash — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:43:44 +0000

RAIDframe is now dead in FreeBSD 6+. GEOM-based solutions have taken its place (gmirror, graid3, soon-to-come graid5, gstripe, gjournal, ggate, etc). Development on RAIDframe died in the early 5.x days, as nobody wanted to GEOM-ify it.

It lives on in FreeBSD 4.x, and I believe NetBSD still uses it.

By: Joerg Sonnenberger

Joerg Sonnenberger — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:53:38 +0000

First of all, ZFS is not really related to this debatte.

Second Vinum is a volume manager which also offers (somewhat poor) support for RAID.

Third “basic” support for RAID on motherboards and have of all so-called “RAID controllers” just leave everything to the OS aka software RAID. They are generally not better than RAIDframe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:31:06 +0000

well you don’t really need two identical drives…

anyway, I don’t think it’s worth porting because ZFS has similar features

By: Joseph Garcia

Joseph Garcia — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:58:04 +0000

Okay, I guess this would be the age old question, but “What’s the major difference between RAIDframe and Vinum and why would one choose RAIDframe over Vinum or vice-versa?”

Honestly, I havne’t used either. Why? Well, because I haven’t had two identical drives and because it doesn’t seem like you can create an “array” upon installation.

Besides, a lot of motherboards these days support basic RAID. I haven’t even tried that to be honest. The only RAID I’ve fooled around with is the hardware RAID on my ML370 and DL360 servers at work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:42:22 +0000

Link to said note: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-03/msg00054.html