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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


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