From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 29 17:46:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B3037B40D for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 76CBA81461; Thu, 30 May 2002 10:16:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:16:17 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Scott Long , Scott Long , Doug White , Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , Kirk Strauser , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum Message-ID: <20020530101617.B44163@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB04636E@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <20020529134211.L82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020529141141.GC2262@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> <20020530090247.Y82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200205300016.g4U0GaBY064168@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205300016.g4U0GaBY064168@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Wednesday, 29 May 2002 at 17:16:36 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I am not going to take a stand on performance other then to say to > both parties: prove your points. Well, I thought I had done just that. If you have any issues with my claims, you're welcome to raise them. > I personally believe that features and management > characteristics are better comparison points between software > and hardware RAID systems. Performance is and always will be a > moving target. What I'm talking about is how to configure a system which gives you the choice of stripe sizes. That's orthogonal to the other issues. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message