From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 11 8:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from boromir.vpop.net (dns1.vpop.net [206.117.147.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3806C14F8C for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@vpop.net) Received: from localhost.vpop.net (ring.vpop.net [206.117.147.5]) by boromir.vpop.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA05139; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) From: joe@vpop.net (Joe McDonald) To: Chris Cook Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: redunancy without RAID Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:57:40 -0700 Organization: VPOP Technologies Inc. Message-ID: <37683170.81567132@127.0.0.1> References: <37562454.718D3319@tcworks.net> In-Reply-To: <37562454.718D3319@tcworks.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Do you know the best way to test if the mirror really works if a drive = goes bad? Pull the power to the drive as it's running? Pull the scsi cable = to the drive as it's running? Will this cause physical damage to the drive? Thanks, -joe On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 01:44:36 -0500, Chris Cook wrote: > We have been running VINUM here at our ISP for quite some time >now. It works great... we have our /usr and /var partitions setup on 2 >different mirrored volumes. The overhead is low and access times are >great. With VINUM, if one of the mirrored disks go out, the volume = should >not crash . As far as ccd goes, I have never used it, but I = believe >both ccd and VINUM will not mirror a boot partition (I know VINUM won't >yet). The VINUM was difficult to install, only because I was trying to = use >the port that comes with FBSD 3.1. If you go this route, I suggest >downloading the lastest version and you shouldn't have problems. Hope = this >helps... --=20 NewsHub: http://www.NewsHub.com/tech/ | MultiTrace: http://www.MultiTrace.com/ | Explore Your Net! DomainSurfer: http://www.DomainSurfer.com/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message