From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 28 0:38: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris.netgate.net [204.145.147.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420B837B859 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA43895; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Didier Derny Cc: Jon Rust , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Didier Derny wrote: > I think that ccd [vinum?] can be more powerful than ccd but that you > have to spent more time to get the right configuration > > the day, I needed to use the mirroring I tried vinum where I had some > problems of configuration and then ccd where I only had to read a simple > man page to have a system working efficiently. > > It is sure that I one day I can find 3 spares disks and a lot > of time I'll try to install vinum. In my opinion it looks tougher than it really is, especially for simple configurations. If you know the 3 or 4 steps you can have things running in a few minutes not counting newfs/init time. I would love to see some simple ground-up recipe's for taking a couple or three fresh disks all the way to mounted volumes. The info is there, but you do have to read quite a bit to put it all together and feel comfortable. I've come close to spewing out a couple one-page from-virgin-disks-to-mounting recipes, but other than fringe things I'm okay with it now and haven't needed it myself. And I always figured we have a few experts here (hello Greg!) who are probably already planning something more user-friendly. ?? Would this be useful? If nothing else it could be a standard response here on the questions list a couple times a week. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message