Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:20:19 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum based system Message-ID: <200303161820.h2GIKvU24279@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200303151623.03287.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
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Hi! > Having no experience with vinum or software RAID systems a number of > questions come to mind: > > 1) All the examples appear to use scsi drives; but I assume EIDE are also > usable? IDE seems to be pretty good these days and much cheaper than scsi. Yes, IDE drives can be used with Vinum. As to the price/quality ratio, that's up to you to decide. I myself still prefer SCSI for servers. I'd use SCSI, if the server needs to be, as you say, "fairly reliable with respect to hardware failure - particularly disk drives". > 2)To what extent can the system be fully mirrored? Without RAID hardware it > seems to me that a conventional disk partition outside the mirrored volume is > probably necessary for mounting / ; is this true? Yes. > 3)If the regular partition is necessary can this be taken as a modest slice > from one of the disks whose major part is devoted to the mirror volume, > and perhaps the corresponding slice on the other used for swap? Yes. That's (almost) exactly what I'm doing - the "corresponding slice on the other disk" is used for swap and /var/tmp. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Be sure to use DEVICE=EXXON to screw up your environment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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