From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 15:01:47 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 ADC8B16A4CF for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.gotbrains.org (www2.gotbrains.org [206.180.149.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4194643D1D for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clists@gotbrains.org) Received: from igor.gotbrains.org (eagle.spinneret.com [206.180.139.69]) by www.gotbrains.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0ON165p065796; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:01:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from clists@gotbrains.org) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:00:08 -0600 From: "Stephen P. Cravey" To: me Message-Id: <20040124170008.14845780.clists@gotbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <401239DD.3050108@wizkid.homeip.net> References: <20040123150648.64dbb023.clists@gotbrains.org> <401239DD.3050108@wizkid.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 23:01:47 -0000 Two reasons: 0)Price. 1)To learn something useful. It shouldn't be difficult, I just can't seem to locate any information on it. This seems the most appropriate place to ask. -Stephen On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0100 me wrote: > 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" > > > >