Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:58:44 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bad sectors on disk and vinum/ccd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990312095529.9450A-100000@chippie.cgu> In-Reply-To: <19990312113613.Q490@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: | Both vinum and ccd assume a "perfect" disk underneath them. They use | the standard disk drivers, and the wd driver supports bad144, so the | answer should be yes. But IDE drives have their own transparent bad | sector handling, so a low-level format should do it transparently. Ok, but there's already data on the disk so I don't want to do a low level format - so I assume bad144 is enough... | > (striping with vinum was btw much faster than ccd!) | | That's interesting. I haven't done any tests. I did (with bonnie) - striping was twice as fast, but also ate twice the processor time. (Doesn't matter that much...) BTW: Can I define that a subdisk uses the whole disk, or the whole available space (instead of just X megabytes?) Thank you for your help, Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: <P.Dekkers@cgu.nl> To err is human, to moo bovine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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