From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 19:12:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA18253 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 19:12:35 -0700 Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA18215 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 19:12:27 -0700 Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA08053; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 21:11:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 21:11:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: Network Coordinator cc: Terry Lambert , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID solutions for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Network Coordinator wrote: > > > I am not sure if the software support for live mirroring and hot > > > spares is inate to FreeBSD however. > > > > What particular support do you think belongs in FreeBSD to support these > > functions? These are functions of the rAID subsystem. Unless we were > > to attempt to implement a software RAID, the hardware should take care > > of it for you. > > I think there is some O/S alert to tell it that the drives are shifting > over or something so that operators will know. If the RAID system > actually does anything, it would be nice to know to change a drive or such. > > A software RAID in FreeBSD? Don't make me drool. > > -Jerry. I saw a Adaptec 3985 for $500 in misc.????.cards.forsale Supposed to have 3 SCSI channels, and so on. Might be the easiest for FreeBSD since we have such good Adaptec support. ______________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org