From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 01:16:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B26016A401 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 01:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clsung@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw) Received: from FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw (freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw [140.113.17.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9909C43D53 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 01:16:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clsung@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw) Received: from localhost (localhost.csie.nctu.edu.tw [127.0.0.1]) by FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9517EAE9; Fri, 5 May 2006 09:16:36 +0800 (CST) Received: from FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TZWHwBS0Z-Tn; Fri, 5 May 2006 09:16:36 +0800 (CST) Received: by FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Postfix, from userid 1038) id 0BAE07EAE6; Fri, 5 May 2006 09:16:36 +0800 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:16:35 +0800 From: Cheng-Lung Sung To: Robert Fitzpatrick Message-ID: <20060505011635.GA19659@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <1146785055.6860.50.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1146785055.6860.50.camel@columbus.webtent.org> X-Fingerprint: E0BC 57F9 F44B 46C6 DB53 8462 F807 89F3 956E 8BC1 X-Public-Key: http://sungsung.dragon2.net/pubring.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Software RAID guidance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 01:16:37 -0000 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You can try gmirror(8) Ref:=20 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ 2. http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6309 On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family > controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB > and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the > controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded FreeBSD 6.0 > onto the two IBM drives. Now, I wanted to mirror the other two for data > and looking for guidance as to whether it is first of all suited for > software RAID and if so, CCD or vinum. I am contemplating vinum because > the handbook mentions CCD is when cost is the important factor and for > me, is reliability. What would someone suggest? If vinum, one thing I > don't quite understand is do I create the partitions to be used in the > device? There doesn't seem to be a man for gvinum and the link to it in > the handbook section 19.6.1 is broken. >=20 > Thanks in advance. --=20 Cheng-Lung Sung - clsung@ --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFEWqdz+AeJ85Vui8ERAl+nAJ9EKc+leuDgNBAhUp0fhOhXAqgb5ACWPkyX qujuHtWfNNzTWm7JSNCKTw== =qDZk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--