From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 20 11:49:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29732 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:49:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (root@news.hub.org [204.101.125.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA29726 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id OAA04940; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:48:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:48:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Darrin R. Woods" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disk Striping In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Darrin R. Woods wrote: > I just got my news server up and running INN (thanks to everyone that > helped), but now I'm looking for a better way of dealing with it. I've got > 3 Fast/Wide 4gb disks to hold news. It would be a lot easier (and better > performance) if I could stripe (or span) the /var partition accross the 3 > disks instead of having to guess as to how to partition each drive and into > what sizes. > > The question: Is there a way to stripe a partition across multiple drives > in FreeBSD? If not, does anyone know of a FreeBSD like OS that will do it? > Preferably NOT Linux. > man 'ccd' and 'ccdconfig'...I've used it here, but due to some configuration changes (moved some drives over to an AHA controller), it no longer seems to work...I think its because of the adaptec 1542CF controller though, as I've been using it for the past 3+ months or so with little to no problems on an NCR controller... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org