From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 14:08:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19744 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19722; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA07436; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:38:03 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA02341; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:38:01 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981217083800.K486@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:38:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Swartzendruber , N Cc: Gary Palmer , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? References: <981216213424.32382A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dan Swartzendruber on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:30:00PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message