From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 3 19:23:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.imach.com (barbwire.iMach.com [206.127.77.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0A037B400 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 19:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.imach.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g442N3951219; Fri, 3 May 2002 20:23:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 20:23:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Aragon Gouveia Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum vs. ccd In-Reply-To: <000501c1f30a$394106f0$01000001@aragon> Message-ID: <20020503202045.J49181-100000@workhorse.imach.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 4 May 2002, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > > I have two drives of different size that I need to combine into one volume. > As much as I'd love to do striping, I don't think this will be reliable (if > at all possible) with drives of differing size. So I've opted on just doing > a straight concatenation of them. ARe you sure you want to do this? You know if either drive fails, you're screwed. Have you considered making two filesystems and using creative symlinking and/or mounting? That said: > My question is an opionated one. I'm trying to decide between ccd and vinum. > I need a reliable solution that's quick/easy to setup and maintain, and one > where I don't have to worry about it breaking, say, 6 months down the line > when I upgrade freebsd. ie. which of the two is regarded less developmental? I use vinum *a lot*. I'm always using it in a raid 1 or striped raid 0+1 configuration with identical volume sizes so I can't comment on your specific situation, although I can vouch for it's stability in my application. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message