From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 1 12:31:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.sitaranetworks.com (apollo.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817E51531E for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Message-ID: <19991029150541.17186@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:05:41 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters , "Stephen J. Roznowski" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Vinum or CCD? (was: CCD questions) References: <199910291212.IAA40158@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> <3819E1EA.83DD04B7@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3819E1EA.83DD04B7@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:05:30PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 29 October 1999 at 12:05:30 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: >> >> On 28 Oct, Wes Peters wrote: >>> "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at >>> >>> Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? >> >> No, but why should I use Vinum over CCD? (All I want to do is create >> some larger disks). > > Because Vinum is being maintained, and because Vinum will allow you to > stripe your disks instead of simple concatenate them, which will probably > result in better I/O rates. In fact, CCD will stripe for you as well. In such configurations, there isn't much difference between CCD and Vinum performance. That changes a lot when you get to mirroring. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message