From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 08:36:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01180 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (pm3-18.wmbg.widomaker.com [206.161.154.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01147; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by toth.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18972; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:30:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@toth.hq.ferg.com To: Michael Beckmann cc: Ben Black , fs@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd setup for striping In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Michael Beckmann wrote: > This is an interesting discussion, but my decision has been made: I will > use the ccd for striping, and I have been told that it works well in a > newsserver. > Could anyone answer my question about the disklabels please ? I cannot > experiment with that, I must setup the ccd, make a filesystem and be up > and running again within, say, an hour. The only thing I would say is to check: http://stampede.cs.berkeley.edu/ccd/README-s.html and HEED the warning about creating a partition that starts at the beginning of a slice.. this messed me up quite a bit. a block or two is not that much to part with considering the gain. - branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?