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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:38:01 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dan Swartzendruber <druber@kersur.net>, N <niels@bakker.net>
Cc:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID solutions?
Message-ID:  <19981217083800.K486@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216162625.5688A-100000@mail.kersur.net>; from Dan Swartzendruber on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:30:00PM -0500
References:  <981216213424.32382A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216162625.5688A-100000@mail.kersur.net>

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On Wednesday, 16 December 1998 at 16:30:00 -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, N wrote:
>
>> Anyway, to get back to the thread, do you think you need any sort of
>> redundancy for the spool?  If not, I suggest you use ccd (or if you're
>> brave, vinom ) to stripe some disks together and mount them in various
>> places (alt, alt.binaries, and the rest sound like good choices).
>
> Okay, as the person who started this: I still have the concern that if I
> throw 20+ drives on the system, will FreeBSD be able to cope with a large
> number of drives like this?

FreeBSD won't have a problem.  You'd need to look more carefully at
the hardware to see whether you could keep them busy.

Greg
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