From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 4: 7: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.jadeb.com (mailgate.jadeb.com [62.49.93.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203E437B408 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 04:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jadeb.com (firewall.jadeb.com [192.168.254.2]) by mailgate.jadeb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1596246C53 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nettle by jadeb.com with local (RemoteNB 1.54beta1) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 19 May 2002 12:06:38 +0000 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:06:38 GMT From: Daniel Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum vs. ccd ? Message-ID: <91bc0f394b.nettle@jadeb.com> References: <3CE5F255.8010407@attbi.com> <3CE72DDB.1040904@attbi.com> <20020519133533.G54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020519133533.G54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Organization: Jades Domain User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.60 (RemoteNB/1.54beta1) (RISC-OS/4.27) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020519133533.G54769@wantadilla.lemis.com> you wrote: > On Saturday, 18 May 2002 at 23:45:15 -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > > David Loszewski wrote: > > > >> When creating a raid what do people prefer to use? Vinum or CCD and > >> why? I read the FreeBSD handbook and it only talks about CCD and when > >> it comes to Vinum it just has XXX as the description.... > >> > >> suggestions? > > > > no suggestions? > > I've been waiting for somebody else to answer this one. > > I'd recommend Vinum. It's much more flexible. A document on using > Vinum is on its way to the handbook, but in the meantime you can get > some information in the (copious) man pages and at > http://www.vinumvm.org/ I've not tried CCD, but from a small amount of research I thought Vinum looked best. I then followed the install instructions (which are great) and would have had it working in no time but for a faulty HD. Once I realised one of the drives I was mirroring to was bad, I got vimum working very easily and has worked faultlessly since. -- Daniel Barron (Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message