From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 27 15:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20417 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20362 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 26960 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Feb 1998 23:20:55 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-022398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802261857.TAA01344@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:55 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Cc: jdn@acp.qiv.com, blkirk@float.eli.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Feb-98 Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Simon Shapiro wrote... >> >> On 25-Feb-98 Wilko Bulte wrote: >> ... >> >> > Digital Unix TruClusters do DRD (distributed raw device) now. Things >> > like Oracle Parallel Server love this. A cluster filesystem is another >> > kettle of fish of course. But not impossible, see OpenVMS. >> >> Stay tuned... FreeBSD will have this functionality too. > > Next step: a volume manager? I'll let someone else commit to this one. I think Julian's SLICE code has something in that direction. DPT supports INCREASING the size of a RAID-5 array by adding drives. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message