From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 11:16:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.191.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E05C1528A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA49573; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:33:34 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:33:33 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: chris@cian.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I spread on directory over several disks? In-Reply-To: <011301bf4005$81164e00$acc628c3@fang> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 chris@cian.net wrote: > Hi, > I have an Adaptec SCSI 2940UW controller card that is to run a web server, > the disks available seem to go no bigger than 18+ GB and so I need to spread > on or two directorys across the disks. However, I'm not planning to use RAID > so please don't suggest that ... like to use the hardware I already have. Is > there a suitable software alternative (free/payware) ? RAID != new hardware ... personally, I've yet to see/find a good RAID controller, so tend to use software RAID exclusively... FreeBSD comes with both CCD and vinum...I belive vinum is becoming the "software of choice" as far as RAID under FreeBSD is concerned though, as, from what I was able to tell, its more featured... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message