From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 11:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357C637B40A for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anphor (montpellier-1-a7-62-147-83-96.dial.proxad.net [62.147.83.96]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 3053A310 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:50:39 +0200 (CEST) From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: Subject: the new ATA driver vs. vinum Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:50:03 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, After reading the atacontrol(8) and ata(4) man pages for FreeBSD 4.6 release I have a question: what is the preferred method for setting up some RAID volumes with FreeBSD 4.6, knowing that I don't need RAID on the boot partition ? Should I run vinum or use the features from the new ata driver ? The documentation on vinum is really large and good, however the warnings in the man page (especially the one against removing debug code) are puzzling. The documentation of the RAID features of the new ata driver are scarce, and after searching the FreeBSD site, I am still wondering how it should be used. If someone can provide some pointers to more complete documentation, this would be really welcome. At this time, it seems that we have two concurent systems for 'simple' RAID setups using IDE drives. The question now is which one should be used, or maybe which one is best for what use. Thanks, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message