Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:40:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Oliver Humpage <bittern@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, oliver@watershed.co.uk Subject: Re: Odd vinum config Message-ID: <20020730214035.GF95493@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <58E35A6A-A404-11D6-8DE2-000A2795CB26@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <58E35A6A-A404-11D6-8DE2-000A2795CB26@blueyonder.co.uk>
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In the last episode (Jul 30), Oliver Humpage said: > Is it possible to set up a mirrored volume in vinum, but only set *one* > of the plexes to be used for reading? > > The reason I'm asking is that I'm making a Network Attached Storage box, > which I think should have SCSI disks and RAID 1. Unfortunately, our > budget doesn't stretch to 8 73GB SCSI drives :-) So I wondered about > having 4 73GB SCSI drives concatenated for the main storage space, and 2 > 160GB IDE drives (also concatenated) as a RAID 1 mirror. However, I > don't want to put too much load on the IDE drives, so I thought perhaps > vinum could be set *not* to read from them, merely to write (although, > if a SCSI drive failed, of course it would have to read from them!). man vinum, search for readpol -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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