From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 13:47:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01971 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:47:16 -0700 Received: from ain.charm.net (ain.charm.net [198.69.35.206]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA01964 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:47:13 -0700 Received: (from nc@localhost) by ain.charm.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA19969; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 16:42:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 16:42:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: Joe Greco cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID] In-Reply-To: <9504221549.AA14262@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Apr 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > Any one want to buy my Quantum Empire 2100 for $800, it's less than 120 days > > old, as I am now going to sell it off and go buy 4 very fast 500MB > > drive and make a stripe driver out of this code :-). > > > > [....] > > > > I have read the code in stripe.tar, it should be a day or twos work > > to get it up and running under FreeBSD. > > Hi Rod, > > Did you ever make any progress on this? If not, I will (try to) look at > it, but I'd prefer that somebody that knows what the heck they're doing down > within the device driver code putz with it.. :-) > > Having recently seen Solaris' Online: DiskSuite, which suffers from fairly > significant performance degradations, I'm curious to see what a real > operating system can do. ;-) > If there is any progress on this, I'd like to know. In fact I might be interested in testing for anyone. I have 4 speedy 4 gig drives that would just love to run striped. Thanks, -Jerry.