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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 16:39:51 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>
Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: getting oriented with RAID
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On Tue,  3 March 1998 at 17:28:48 -0800, Tom wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Omar Thameen wrote:
>
>> I really want to make sure I understand the implementation of RAID
>> on freebsd, because it looks like a great thing to have on production
>> servers.  Sorry if this continues to be very basic.
>
>   Sorry, there is no "implementation of RAID on freebsd".  RAID is handled
> by the controller.  FreeBSD just sees a big disk.

You're just barely correct.  I'm writing a software RAID 5
implementation.  ccd is a RAID 0/1 implementation.

Greg

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