From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 21:56:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15677 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15670 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA22001; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:26:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id QAA98283; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:26:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:26:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advice on setting up a Vinum volume Message-ID: <19990202162645.W76680@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990201232551.A8463@gforce.johnson.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990201232551.A8463@gforce.johnson.home>; from Glenn Johnson on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:25:52PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 23:25:52 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I am getting a new ultra SCSI disk. I don't have it yet but it will be > something between 4 and 4.5 GB. I currently have a WDC AC21600H, 1549MB > drive. I will be making the SCSI disk my primary disk and was trying to > think of ways to use my existing IDE drive. What I was thinking was to > take 1549MB from the SCSI disk and make a Vinum striped volume with it > and the IDE drive. Does any one have a feel for what the performance of > that setup would be? As long as you have only one drive per IDE controller, and if you can use DMA, performance should be acceptable. It depends a lot on how you set up Vinum, of course. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message