From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 10 17:42:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (adsl-66-122-50-146.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.122.50.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F410C37B404 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g1A5DeA04194; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:13:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:13:40 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Software RAID 1... Message-ID: <20020210151339.A4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <331344057202.20020207193136@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <331344057202.20020207193136@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:31:36PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 7 February 2002 at 19:31:36 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello, > I'm looking for a software RAID 1 KISS solution. I know about vinum > but I don't really like the complexity it brings to the game... I'd be interested in your views on what complexity Vinum brings beyond the basic understanding of the concepts of RAID systems. > What I'm looking for is simple: a driver/device that takes two > identical disks and simply copies every write to the device to both > of the drives so I always have identical copies of the > drive. Balancing of reads would be nice, but not ultimately needed. What's wrong with the vinum mirror command? Well, I have an answer for that, but I don't think it's your reason. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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