Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:21:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000920151132.71393A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009201607490.16437-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: :> > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from :> > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. :> > :> > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how :> > to work reliably with them. :> :> "man vinum" :> :> software mirroring == good. :> :What would be the incentives to using vinum instead of simply :concatenating drives in a RAID-1 array (or whatever) using ccd(4)? Concatenating drives is a decidedly different thing than mirroring them is. Mirroring allows you to recover from failed disks without having to restore from tape. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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