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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




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