From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Nov 8 05:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09739 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09734 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA09110; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:00:05 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA17113; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:00:05 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981108140005.03003@follo.net> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:00:05 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Bill Vermillion , Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID1 Software vs Hardware References: <19981108094916.T499@freebie.lemis.com> <199811081130.GAA21734@bilver.magicnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199811081130.GAA21734@bilver.magicnet.net>; from Bill Vermillion on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 06:30:17AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 06:30:17AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > Vinum has a choice of round robin (default) or always reading from > > a specific drive (which can be an advantage if you have a ramdisk, > > for example). > > Yup. I can't see much use for a RAID in RAM. :-) Make one of the disks work as an extremely fast cache. Or it may be NVRAM - you still want it backed up somewhere. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message