From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 20 13:17:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A797C37B423; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13bqIj-00058M-00; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:17:05 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8KKIQH03106; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:18:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:18:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Marc Tardif Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Edward Elhauge , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000920221826.A2971@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from intmktg@CAM.ORG on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:09:13PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:09:13PM -0400, Marc Tardif wrote: > > > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from > > > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. > > > > > > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how > > > to work reliably with them. > > > > "man vinum" > > > > software mirroring == good. > > > What would be the incentives to using vinum instead of simply > concatenating drives in a RAID-1 array (or whatever) using ccd(4)? ?? Concatenating != mirroring aka RAID-1 -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message