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Date:      Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:59:29 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      mika ruohotie <bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net>
To:        rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: striping/mirroring?
Message-ID:  <199609280759.KAA29863@shadows.aeon.net>
In-Reply-To: <v02140b00ae7165202ef0@[208.2.87.4]> from Richard Wackerbarth at "Sep 27, 96 06:10:25 am"

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> Look at what striping does...
> It takes a number of drives and makes it appear that they are one large
> (faster) drive.

i know

> Mirroring takes two drives of the same size and stores the information
> redundantly.

i know

> Thus if you were to mirror a 4 drive combination to a single drive, that
> drive would have to be 4 times as large. It would also need to be fast.

it should be huge, yes. fast, no, if i dont want to mirror all i am
striping... or if i do the way i was planning... using 2 gig drives,
and only _use_ the space of one disk i'm mirroring to...

original question was, can i do it with freebsd?

seems to me answer is no.


mickey



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