Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:12:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting oriented with RAID Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980307001108.20965A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <19980307163951.57653@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Most people think of "RAID" as RAID5. Even the ccd manpage refuses to call what it does "RAID". > Greg Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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