From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 18:16:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2916C37B986 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 18:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA08367; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:46:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:46:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nathan Vidican Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum and/or disk mirroring Message-ID: <20000502104643.C3072@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200005020021.UAA20784@mail.jet2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200005020021.UAA20784@mail.jet2.net> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 1 May 2000 at 21:38:34 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that vinum deals with disk mirroring/striping? I > see the messages floating in/out every so often on the list, and I'm > curious. Yes. > I'd like to setup a machine to mirror two identical IDE disks, primarily > to achieve higher performance. The configuration would be a single 365meg > IDE disk as the primary drive on the first channel, with a 15gig ide disk > as a slave, followed by an identifcal 15gig ide disk as the primary drive > on the secondary channel (with a cdrom as secondary slave). What I'd like > to do is mount the 365meg HD as root, and mirror the other two disks into > swap and one large partition mounted as /server. > What kind of recomendations do you have? Should I just use CCD, (I've read > up on, and tried tampering a little with CCD - but admittedly never gave it > much effort). I hear about vinum, but again am not sure what it is? How > would be the simplest way to go about doing what it is I'm trying to do? Well, the obvious thing is to read the man page. You can also read http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. And yes, you can use Vinum for this. You can also use ccd if error recovery isn't important to you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message