From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 01:25:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A73C16A4E9 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wizkid.homeip.net (wizkid.homeip.net [213.238.38.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED6A43D58 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from me@wizkid.homeip.net) Received: from amavis by wizkid.homeip.net with scanned-ok (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AkK23-0004g8-00; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:47 +0100 Received: from wizkid.homeip.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (darkstar [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17111-08; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from thakisis ([192.168.1.25] helo=wizkid.homeip.net) by wizkid.homeip.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AkK20-0004g3-00; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:44 +0100 Message-ID: <401239DD.3050108@wizkid.homeip.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0100 From: me User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040123150648.64dbb023.clists@gotbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <20040123150648.64dbb023.clists@gotbrains.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at wizkid.homeip.net cc: "Stephen P. Cravey" Subject: Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:25:24 -0000 what about buying an external raid-box? then you dont have to care about these questions ;) the external box is doing raid 5 with hot standby disk and is connected to the system via scsi and looks like one big drive. the box itself is full of hot-swappable ide drives and the system does not notice, if something goes wrong, because the box handles these things on its own. greetings ruediger Stephen P. Cravey wrote: > I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. > > Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: > > Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? > > Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI that will handle the plugging/unplugging of drives, or do I just need to do a bus rescan (or the like) after the change and notify vinum? i.e. do i need something like an adaptec 2200S or will a 39320 work? > > Is there anything in particular I should look for when buying hot swap chassis? Other than SCA for SCSI? > > What about Hot swap with Fibre Channel? > > What about using FreeBSD in a SAN where it's both serving drives and acting as a client? > > Where can I find (recent) performance numbers for raid 0,1,5 comparisons? > > What else should I know about this before attempting it? > > Thank you. > > -Stephen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >