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 - 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-isp" in the body of the message
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