From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 29 02:28:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA13225 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA12722; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bsdscsi@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA09750; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:24:06 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199609290924.LAA09750@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: striping/mirroring? To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:24:06 +0200 (EET) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609282113.QAA00554@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Sep 28, 96 04:13:37 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- mika@aeon.net mika ruohotie