From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 7:56:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7153C37B401 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [216.254.40.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39CAB43E64 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from decibel@decibel.org) Received: (qmail 60400 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Jul 2002 14:54:41 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:54:41 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020713095441.A60393@flake.decibel.org> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: "Jim C. Nasby" , Steve O'Hara-Smith , laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020713075501.4aa45eb4.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:55:01AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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