Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 23:46:03 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, tim@scratch.demon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum (how to use after creation) Message-ID: <36E3560B.98F6AEAD@confusion.net> References: <199903071254.MAA02531@franklin.matlink> <4.1.19990307101720.00c13100@mail-r> <19990308143012.M490@lemis.com> <36E34FBD.CB05405A@confusion.net>
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On a related note where is vinum?? I cant find it as a port, is it somewhere else on the cd's? Does it come as a base installation? Laurence Berland wrote: > Can someone get a little bit more in depth on the different kinds of plexes? I'm not > quite clear what the differences are. The following basic descripitons are from > www.lemis.com > > Plex organizations > > The manner in which data is mapped to a plex has a significant effect on the utility > of the plex. Vinum offers three mappings: > > concatenated plexes use the complete address space of each subdisk in turn. > > A striped plex conforms to RAID 0. The address space is taken from each subdisk > in turn in stripes of a specified size. This makes for more even loading in > many cases. > > A RAID 5 plex incorporates error recovery: if each subdisk is located on a > different physical drive, the plex can continue operation even if any single drive > involved in the plex fails. > <SNIP> > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and > a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. > http://stuy.debate.net > icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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