Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 04:18:55 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <199704041218.EAA11522@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:15:08 %2B0100." <3344E2BC.5DC51F25@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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>> We don't have Veritas available and I'm not willing to use CCD due to >> too high a drive failure rate. > >CCD? "Concantenated Disk" driver. It's a pseudo disk device that lets one create simple volume sets from individual disk drives. It is usually used to create large pseudo disks from an array of smaller ones. It has no 'parity' bit or other volume fault tolerance mechanisms, however, so if one drive fails you lose the entire volume. >> Look, if >> people can just deal with this for the short term, we'll eventually move >> FreeBSD to a 9GB drive and this will be a non-issue again. > >Sorry if you felt I was trying to get at you, or something. Its just >from >past experience I've found these things help. sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk does indeed look impressive. It's obvious that someone has spent a lot of money on it. :-) ...we have to work with what we have, however, and I think our current operations and policies are generally working well. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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