From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 17:13:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15012 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA04537; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:12:42 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vinum (was Re: Software RAID) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:16:29 GMT Message-ID: <35f71995.77963685@mail.sentex.net> References: <19980909182749.N583@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980909182749.N583@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:27:49 +0930, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >On Tuesday, 8 September 1998 at 1:37:49 +0000, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:22:05 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions >> you wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> does or will FreeBSD support software RAID? >> >> Partially... Have a look at >> >> man -k ccd > >Vinum will replace ccd. > >Greg Would you say its ready for prime time in for example a new server environment ? Also, on my news server I have a few drives that are of different make and model. Last time I looked at ccd it was not reccomended to try and stripe drives of different sizes and performance specs. Can I use vnum to make 1 virtual news spool drive? Also, how well does vinum cope with disk errors. I have one fuji thats somewhat prone to them... Thanks, ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message