Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:10:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: PVinci@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID] Message-ID: <9504021610.AA06274@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199504011815.UAA01396@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Apr 1, 95 08:15:16 pm
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> Stop! Spanning and RAID are not the same. And only RAID5 and friends > give you redundancy against single-disk failures. RAID0 (striping) > leaves you hair tearing when one of the member disks breaks. Yes, in many cases. However, those of us managing Usenet spools spread over half a dozen disks would probably not mind (I'm not particularly fond of newfs'ing an entire spool after a single disk crash, but it might be an acceptable tradeoff). It would be nice to see some sort of solution, even if it's not necessarily "optimal" at this time. :-) ... JG
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