At 06:14 PM 3/2/2002 , Trapper wrote:
>I'm not aware of Slowlaris supporting software RAID (at least not without
>3rd party tools) so I'm thinking it's pretty much off the list. Putting
>my db on a software RAID0 vs straight disk has resulted in certain ops
>going at 10x speed (yes, 10x! (no, it wasn't due to caching!)).
This is not a direct answer to your question, but Solstice Disk Suite
=does= support software RAID--we're using it here.
That being said, Vinum under FreeBSD is inspired by Veritas Volume Manager,
and does a nice job. We run PostgreSQL under both Solaris 2.6 and FreeBSD 4.3.
-crl
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