Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:17:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Saunders <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19990929131709.A96948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990929034142.17186.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au>; from John Saunders on Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:41:42PM %2B1000 References: <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <19990929034142.17186.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au>
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On Wednesday, 29 September 1999 at 13:41:42 +1000, John Saunders wrote: > In freebsd-current you wrote: >>> 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... > > I suspect that back porting the ida (Compaq SMART RAID) driver from > -current to 3.x would be both quicker and cheaper that the software > development you propose. At least that way you don't have to deal > with DPT. > > Any software additions to support hot swap and auto-rebuild would need > to interoperate with vinum. From my understanding, vinum will survive > a failed disk and continue to run. However no mechanism is yet available > to automatically rebuild a new disk. Correct. At the moment it needs to be done manually. That's what Rod is asking for. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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