From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 16:28:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337B137BE90 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:28:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA31475; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:58:29 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:58:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Jon Rust , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring Message-ID: <20000226105828.B19404@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000225135850.J19404@freebie.lemis.com> <200002251736.JAA22755@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002251736.JAA22755@ptavv.es.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 9:36:04 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:58:50 +1030 >> From: Greg Lehey >> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> On Thursday, 24 February 2000 at 10:43:29 -0800, Jon Rust wrote: >>> At 4:58 PM +0000 2/24/00, Didier Derny wrote: >>>> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, David Ward wrote: >>>> >>>>> Here's a newbie question for ya: >>>>> >>>>> Is Disk mirroring supported under FreeBSD? and if so, where can I look for a >>>>> list of supported hardware (i.e. scsi raid controllers) >>>> >>>> raid 1 with ccd works wonderfully >>>> >>> >>> ccd?! Why not use Vinum? Up to date, supported, actively >>> maintained... Is ccd actively maintained (honest question)? >> >> I believe some work is still going on, but it's not very much. >> >>> Any 2, non-boot drives, will work. >> >> RSN we'll have boot device support too. > > Any chance you would be willing to divulge what RSN means? Are we > talking weeks or months? It's basically related to the release cycle. I had intended to get it in to 4.0-RELEASE, but I got sidetracked with other things, and it's not clear whether I will still be allowed to. If not, it'll be the next release. > The Vinum web pages talk about possible approaches to doing this, > but no approach was even singled out as the one to be used, so I > didn't realize that any real coding had even started. I'm excited! The web pages are out of date. I'll fix them as well. > Also, the original message says "2, non-boot drives". I thought that > I could set up any partition as a Vinum virtual disk. Is it really > restricted to an entire physical device? No, Vinum drives are disk partitions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message