Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 09:53:02 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, James Graham <greywolf@siva.captech.com>, "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <199610011653.JAA01227@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 09:11:18 PDT." <199610011611.JAA00870@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> > For instance, why can't I have my root-partition striped ? > >I think a better question is "why would I _want_ my root partition striped?" >:-) > >(The real answer to your question is "Becuse then you've added unnecessary >clutter to the ccd configuration code to deal with both statically- >and synamically-configured ccds". In my mind, saying that your >MUST WORK AT ALL COSTS fileystem isn't allowed to be striped is an >acceptable trade-off :-) Actually, I don't think it is. CCD should be relying on information stored in a private area of the disk to determine what stripe sets what partitions belong to, etc. This is how all of the industrial strength filesystem VM systems work. When you open the partition, you see it has a CCD block on it, and then pass it on to CCD informing it of the dev that the block came from. The upside to this is that you can re-arange your disks (even put them on different controllers) and the system still finds your array and makes it work. Having my root FS on a RAID 5 device makes it more robust than having it on a single disk. This is more than enough justification for allowing you to do this. >Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov >NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 >NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 >Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939 -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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