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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:07:33 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        patton@sysnet.net, dswartz@druber.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID solutions?
Message-ID:  <19981219090733.D486@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <7947.913979180@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:06:20PM %2B0100
References:  <19981218185636.Z486@freebie.lemis.com> <7947.913979180@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 12:06:20 +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>>> ... and the FreeBSD ccd mirroring does *not* balance the reads. It always
>>> reads from the first disk in a mirror.
>>
>> Correct.  But that's about the only package that does.  Use vinum
>> instead; it's much more advanced.
>
> We haven't really looked at vinum because we've gotten the impression
> that it's not quite ready for prime time yet. 

This is very much a matter of opinion.  Yes, Vinum will continue to
develop for a while.  On the other hand, by my standards ccd isn't
ready for prime time either.

> If you think it can offer stability and write performance similar to
> ccd,

Well, I hope the stability is better.  But write performance is pretty
much the same for a configuration similar to those supported by ccd

> *and* better performance > on reads (for a mirrored file system),

Definitely.

> it's definitely something we should consider.

Indeed.  You should get the latest version from -stable, though.

Greg
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