From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 17:01:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06196 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06189 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03667; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:00:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:00:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Carey Nairn cc: The Hermit Hacker , Lennart Nilhov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd-driver In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970225103013.0070c8b8@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doesn't say on that man page that the disk can't be mirrored, and if you look in the man page for ccd.conf, it specifically delineates that it can be done, and further, I can speak with some authority since I use it in that mode, that it mirrors partitions just fine, with some 20GB's or so mirrored at any given instant at my location. YMMV. On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Carey Nairn wrote: > 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 >