From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 16 10:22:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2606C151D2 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:22:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA08643 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:21:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36EEA133.C3A4981E@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:21:39 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mirroring disks: ccd or vinum? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > I am going to set up my first mirror device under FreeBSD. My > > question is: what should I use: ccd or vinum? Reliability > > and stability are important in this case. > > If reliability is most important, don't use either, but no software > solution can protect against boot disk failure. > OK, I already knew that :-) Perhaps my question was not clear enough. I _decided_ to set up a disk mirror (I have good reasons, trust me). Relability and stability are, in this particular case, _more_ important _than_ other factors such as speed. Then, what is the better solution: vinum or ccd? TIA, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message