Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:24:06 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie <bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: striping/mirroring? Message-ID: <199609290924.LAA09750@shadows.aeon.net> In-Reply-To: <199609282113.QAA00554@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Sep 28, 96 04:13:37 pm"
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> Having used ccd extensively for the past year, on production news server
> systems, I think I can safely state that you need not concern yourself
> too much with "striping crashes"... you are more likely to run into a
> dead disk than a problem with ccd. I have over two dozen heavily utilized
> ccd partitions in operation and have not seen any problems with ccd.
when i said "striping crash" i included dead drive there too... i meant
crash being _anything_ that interferes the striping and causes me a
serious loss of data...
> If you are looking purely for reliability, look for a RAID solution.
> RAID's are more reliable than a SLED (Single Large Expensive Disk).
i know that. but i would have a _hard_ time to explain to my boss why we
should spend $$$$$ instead of $$$ since he has no knowledge whatsoever
how the systems actually work... and is not too happy spending too much
money...
mickey
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mika@aeon.net mika ruohotie
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