From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 19: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C493437B403 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 614046ACBC; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:37:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:37:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum mirrored/striped confusion Message-ID: <20010715113722.E96615@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010714004038.A58799@drex.staff.izr.com> <20010714092821.F99931@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010714111341.B63502@drex.staff.izr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010714111341.B63502@drex.staff.izr.com>; from mark.drayton@izr.com on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:13:41AM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 14 July 2001 at 11:13:41 +0100, Mark Drayton wrote: > Greg Lehey (grog@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >> On Saturday, 14 July 2001 at 0:40:39 +0100, Mark Drayton wrote: >>> Aside from this possible difference, is one of these two setups >>> going to perform better (for a mail server) than the other? >> >> Well, the second config only has half the storage :-) But if you made >> those 1 GB subdisks, the performance should be comparable. > > Okay. Which of these configurations do you recommend? Quite honestly I can't make up my mind. > As far as I know, both configurations perform equally well, and a > disk failure in either case will result in half the volume not being > mirrored but with the volume remaining up. Is there any other > pros/cons I should consider? I can't think of any. Best suck it and see. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message