From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 17:19:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C234737B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40D543E42 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C267581435; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:49:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:49:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Oliver Humpage Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, oliver@watershed.co.uk Subject: Re: Odd vinum config Message-ID: <20020731001920.GU45350@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020730214035.GF95493@dan.emsphone.com> <7BFBD5E4-A405-11D6-8DE2-000A2795CB26@blueyonder.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7BFBD5E4-A405-11D6-8DE2-000A2795CB26@blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 July 2002 at 22:44:11 +0100, Oliver Humpage wrote: > On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 10:40 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> In the last episode (Jul 30), Oliver Humpage said: >>> Is it possible to set up a mirrored volume in vinum, but only set *one* >>> of the plexes to be used for reading? >>> >>> The reason I'm asking is that I'm making a Network Attached Storage >>> box, >>> which I think should have SCSI disks and RAID 1. Unfortunately, our >>> budget doesn't stretch to 8 73GB SCSI drives :-) So I wondered about >>> having 4 73GB SCSI drives concatenated for the main storage space, >>> and 2 >>> 160GB IDE drives (also concatenated) as a RAID 1 mirror. However, I >>> don't want to put too much load on the IDE drives, so I thought perhaps >>> vinum could be set *not* to read from them, merely to write (although, >>> if a SCSI drive failed, of course it would have to read from them!). >> >> man vinum, search for readpol > > Makes note to self: searching in man pages doesn't wrap! > > I'd already looked for 'read policy' but hadn't found it. Sorry :) readpol doesn't really work at the moment. The syntax of the config file is broken. It's on my "to do" list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message