Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:00:08 -0600 From: "Stephen P. Cravey" <clists@gotbrains.org> To: me <me@wizkid.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20040124170008.14845780.clists@gotbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <401239DD.3050108@wizkid.homeip.net> References: <20040123150648.64dbb023.clists@gotbrains.org> <401239DD.3050108@wizkid.homeip.net>
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Two reasons: 0)Price. 1)To learn something useful. It shouldn't be difficult, I just can't seem to locate any information on it. This seems the most appropriate place to ask. -Stephen On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0100 me <me@wizkid.homeip.net> wrote: > what about buying an external raid-box? then you dont have to care about > these questions ;) > the external box is doing raid 5 with hot standby disk and is connected > to the system via scsi and looks like one big drive. > the box itself is full of hot-swappable ide drives and the system does > not notice, if something goes wrong, because the box handles these > things on its own. > > > greetings > ruediger > > > > Stephen P. Cravey wrote: > > > I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. > > > > Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: > > > > Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? > > > > Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI that will handle the plugging/unplugging of drives, or do I just need to do a bus rescan (or the like) after the change and notify vinum? i.e. do i need something like an adaptec 2200S or will a 39320 work? > > > > Is there anything in particular I should look for when buying hot swap chassis? Other than SCA for SCSI? > > > > What about Hot swap with Fibre Channel? > > > > What about using FreeBSD in a SAN where it's both serving drives and acting as a client? > > > > Where can I find (recent) performance numbers for raid 0,1,5 comparisons? > > > > What else should I know about this before attempting it? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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