From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 7 00:30:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10951 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:30:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA10943 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yBEie-0005SO-00; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:12:32 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:12:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Greg Lehey cc: Omar Thameen , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting oriented with RAID In-Reply-To: <19980307163951.57653@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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