From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 3 21:16:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19415 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:16:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@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 VAA19407; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:16:43 -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 PAA01664; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:46:20 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA03187; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:46:20 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981104154620.Q784@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:46:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Gary Palmer Cc: Steve Ames , steve@inc.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum on root partition (was: disk mirroring?) References: <19981104150946.L784@freebie.lemis.com> <13423.910156401@gjp.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <13423.910156401@gjp.erols.com>; from Gary Palmer on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:13:21AM -0500 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-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 4 November 1998 at 0:13:21 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote in message ID > <19981104150946.L784@freebie.lemis.com>: >>> - requires that you start with either 'ccd' devices or 'vinum' volumes >>> (existing data partitions need to be copied off and then back on...) > > Do you have background mirror creation/resynchronization? Yes. > That seems to be a big thing missing from ccd. One big thing. Lots of things are missing from ccd. > Its ok staying up after losing a disk, but if you have to keep the > system down for a long period to dd the data around, that blows IMHO Correct. Check out the web page (http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html). Greg -- 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-isp" in the body of the message