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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:51:36 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
Cc:        dg@root.com, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys disklabel.h 
Message-ID:  <12303.888180696@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:49:55 PST." <19980222124955.53778@micron.mini.net> 

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In message <19980222124955.53778@micron.mini.net>, Jonathan Mini writes:
>David Greenman <dg@root.com> stands accused of saying:
>> >Wow!  Are you actually going to use 32 CCD devices?  How much disk space?
>> >
>> >(curious minds want to know..:) )
>> 
>>    There are actually only 5 ccd devices in use, but spread out over 40 uni
>ts
>> due to the naming convention that I'm using which is to have the ccd unit
>> be the first sd unit in the set - this helps me keep track of which physica
>l
>> disk drive(s) the archives are located.
>
>  No fun, that's cheating! ;)

If it is any consolation to you, I have run with 7 ccd devices on two drives,
2 of them as mirror and the rest as striping.

Performance was OK

The drives were 1.2M 5.25" floppies  :-)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"



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