Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:54:41 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020713095441.A60393@flake.decibel.org> In-Reply-To: <20020713075501.4aa45eb4.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:55:01AM %2B0200 References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020712160659.F51502@flake.decibel.org> <20020713075501.4aa45eb4.steve@sohara.org>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:55:01AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:06:59 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> wrote: > > JCN> This is new then, if it actually supports vinum. What is a SPAN? > > I don't think it has anything to do with vinum. I'm still trying > to work out what a SPAN (JBOD) is (does the JBOD help ?). I /think/ it > is concatenated drives. Just a Bunch Of Disks. It's a term for a 'dump' drive cabinet, typically one that has a power supply, a SCSI connector or two, and room for a bunch of drives. It has absolutely nothing to do with RAID (although you'd typically use raid to access such a large number of drives). -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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