From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 21 23:43:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12332 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:43:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12326 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:43:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA02637 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:12:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA09501; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:12:41 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981122181241.K1005@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:12:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Vinum (was: How to use ccd) References: <19981121190559.D303@futuresouth.com> <19981122155412.H1005@freebie.lemis.com> <19981121233448.A55997@futuresouth.com> <19981122160648.I1005@freebie.lemis.com> <19981121235118.A56164@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981121235118.A56164@futuresouth.com>; from Stormy Henderson on Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 11:51:18PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <19981121235118.A56164@futuresouth.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 21 November 1998 at 23:51:18 -0600, Stormy Henderson wrote: > A happy camper (Greg Lehey, grog@lemis.com) once wrote... Please copy me on messages you expect me to read. Otherwise I might not see them. >> Yup, I'm afraid so. If you're going to that, you might as well move >> to vinum at the same time. http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. > > Is it faster No. In each case, the limiting factor is the disk hardware. > or more stable? Yes. ccd is fine as long as the hardware is OK. If a component of a mirror fails, however, you have to reboot and reconfigure ccd before you can continue. Vinum recovers automatically. > It looks much more complicated to setup than ccd. A little. But it's not really that complicated, and the documentation is (marginally) better. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message