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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:23:48 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>
Cc:        Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Frustration with SCSI system
Message-ID:  <20000920132348.H9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009201607490.16437-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG>; from intmktg@CAM.ORG on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:09:13PM -0400
References:  <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009201607490.16437-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG>

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* Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG> [000920 13:06] 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)?

vinum can rebuild mirrored disks on the fly if you go with hotswap.

-Alfred


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