From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 15:14:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA02215 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02207 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA02331; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:36:51 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602192306.JAA02331@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger MCSNet) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:36:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Feb 19, 96 09:46:20 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Denninger, MCSNet stands accused of saying: >>> ccd works fine, I have not tested more than two disks striped, more than one >>> ccd device, or a partition > 8GB, but I do have 2-drive 4GB and 8GB >>> partitions running on news.sol.net and daily-planet.execpc.com, very >>> reliable. news.sol.net has actually STOPPED crashing because it's no longer >>> running out of disk space every few days :-) >> >> Yay! >> >>> ... Joe > > Uh, what's "ccd". Are we talking striping in software on FreeBSD 2.1? Yes. 'ccd' is a port of the NetBSD 'concatenated disk' driver. Satoshi can probably tell you more, or you can hit the hackers list archive and look for his most recent announcement. Unless something's changed recently it's still somewhat alpha-ish. > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[