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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:13:40 +1000
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Software RAID 1...
Message-ID:  <20020210151339.A4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <331344057202.20020207193136@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:31:36PM %2B0100
References:  <331344057202.20020207193136@buz.ch>

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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
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