Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 21:07:08 -0500 (EST) From: Ron Steele <rjs@clark.net> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Disk Mirrors Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950203204212.24479A-100000@explorer>
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I recently had an experience using disk mirroring on an HP-UX machine and thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be great if FreeBSD could do this." The HP was a brand new installation, and one of the mirrored drives failed (Less than a week of use) and the application absolutely could not tell there was a failure. I didn't find out about it till I checked the system console. So, I would be interested in developing some sort of mirroring/logical volume capability for FreeBSD. I feel that this would lend a lot of credit to FreeBSD as a "commercial" product, and perhaps make it a more acceptable replacement for commercial Unix systems to people that may be reluctant to use a freeware product. I am an experienced C/Unix person, but have never gotten my feet wet in the kernel, so I would need some mentoring. Still I think I could pull this off with a little help. If anyone else is interested in pursuing this please email me. Some words of encouragement from an experienced file system person would be especially welcome. Ron Steele rjs@clark.net
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