From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 20 13:21:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F5537B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA84315; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:21:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:21:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Marc Tardif Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Edward Elhauge , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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