From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 12 4:32:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9434114E63 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 04:32:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:32:25 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105984@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Alfred Perlstein' , Kent Ho Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can I setup 2 hardrives and as one in FreeBSD. Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:34:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now that I can speak from experience. It's a bit intimidating when you look at it, but I believe it took me about 1 or 2 hrs to successfully setup my 1st vinum volume. It would have taken me even less time, had I had the proper information in front of me when I was trying to set it up, I had to search the mailing lists for more info. If there's one thing that Greg Lehey is good it, it's documentation. :) Now that I understand better what is going on with vinum, I'm confident that I could set one up on 10 minutes. Vinum does appear to be a more flexable way to go for merging 2 disks, you can concatenate them, you can stripe them for speed, and you can do software level RAID. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more information. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@rush.net] > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 4:37 AM > To: Kent Ho > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Can I setup 2 hardrives and as one in FreeBSD. > > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Kent Ho wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to strung up two harddrive together to make one big drive > in FreeBSD... like you can do in Windows NT? I know RAID can do it but is > there any cheaper and simpler alternatives... > > please tell your mailer to wrap lines at 75 characters or so... > > and yes, there is software raid: > > man ccd > man vinum > > ccd is "easier" but also less flexible, vinum is extremely flexible but > a bit hairy to setup from what i've seen. > > -Alfred > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message