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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:30:18 +1100
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Re: ccd-driver
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At 19:06 24/02/97 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:
>
>> If you want to mirror one disk on another (i.e. make an exact duplicate)
>> then ccd is not the solution you want.
>>
>	Why not?  I'm personally using it to strip 5 disks into one file
>system for news, but according to the man page(s), ccd does support 
>mirror'ng...
>

from the ccd man page...

The ccd driver provides the capability of combining one or more
disks/partitions into one virtual disk.

I didn't see anything about using ccd to mirror.  If you can point me to
the relevant man page I would happily be corrected on this point.

cheers,
Carey