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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:11:39 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System crash on "vinum start"
Message-ID:  <19990929131139.Z96948@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 03:31:54PM -0700
References:  <199909282140.XAA97529@yedi.iaf.nl> <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 15:31:54 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ...
>>>> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>>>  Good software shouldn't panic.
>>>> I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(.
>>
>>>> rather than having to recover each logical volume.  It would also be
>>>> nice if you could recover mirrored root/swap without needing to
>>>> unmirror and re-mirror them.
>>>
>>> Hummm.. this may seem like a really stange question, but I'll throw
>>> it out anyway:
>>>
>>> Would $9,000 paid to a developer here with immediate time avaliable
>>> bring FreeBSD 3.x to a state of being able to replace our current use
>>> of hardware raid to do Raid-1 mirroring with hot swap automagic
>>> rebuild capabilities?  (It would need to be production quality code
>>> for very serious business, and completed in 3 weeks time.)
>>>
>>> Serious responses only please.
>>
>> Rod,
>>
>> Being in the hardware RAID business myself I cannot help asking: why do you
>> want to loose the hardware RAID in favor of a software solution? Flexibility
>> (just guessing) or price maybe?
>
> Because DPT has screwed this customer over for the last time...

Another reason might be the performance.  Take a look at 
http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html.

Greg
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