Reading raid(4) [1] it looks like RAID-6 is not supported: I would think with drives sizes being what they are in recent years (decades?), protection from a double-fault during a re-stripe would be important. Or is RAIDframe mostly supposed to be used for 'smaller situations' (like a boot drive)?
I first ran across the "RAID-5 is dead" 'meme' almost twenty years ago, with concerns that when drives reached >2TB you get higher chances of failed rebuilds due to BER / UER rates:
I say this everytime I see a NetBSD post but they still have tier 2 ports for
Dreamcast, Sony NET WORK STATION, Zaurus, Sharp x68000, among many many others that I'm less familiar with.
It's why it doesn't really bother me when, say, the Linux kernel drops hardware support for older architectures.
Much respect to the NetBSD and port maintainers.
mrpippy 1 days ago [-]
Especially since the Linux kernel dropping support usually happens years after distributions already have, so it would be quite difficult to run actual software on such hardware anyway. Whereas NetBSD is an entire OS.
SpecialistK 24 hours ago [-]
I've said it before and I've said it again - I think it's best for everyone if mainstream Linux and FreeBSD chase the best performance and latest features, while NetBSD aims (and specializes) at providing a stable, modern, reliable OS for these legacy platforms.
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[1] https://man.netbsd.org/raid.4
I first ran across the "RAID-5 is dead" 'meme' almost twenty years ago, with concerns that when drives reached >2TB you get higher chances of failed rebuilds due to BER / UER rates:
* https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-20...
See also 2013 follow-up:
* https://www.zdnet.com/article/has-raid5-stopped-working/
* https://man.netbsd.org/zfs.8
FreeBSD's graid(8) does appear to RAID6:
* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=graid
* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/geom/
It's why it doesn't really bother me when, say, the Linux kernel drops hardware support for older architectures.
Much respect to the NetBSD and port maintainers.