From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 10 17:43:17 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 D5E8E37B41C for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g1A5FjH04223; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:15:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:15:45 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: jacks@sage-american.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Software RAID 1... Message-ID: <20020210151545.B4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020207125029.01959060@mail.sage-american.com> <781345989861.20020207200349@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: <781345989861.20020207200349@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:03:49PM +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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long-short syndrome. On Thursday, 7 February 2002 at 20:03:49 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello jacks, > > 7 Feb 2002, 19:50:29, you wrote: > >> Gabriel: Good luck! I've been looking for this very same thing and >> also agree that Vinum is much too complex with too many working >> parts subject to breakdown. It also still will not do a pure RAID 1 >> where the hard drives are kept identical (mirrored) inasmuch as >> root is not copied and must be copied by some separate method, at >> least my understanding. > > ACK. It will only mirror individual partitions which in theory adds > a lot of configurability but in practice just plain sucks as it > makes the whole thing way too complex. Well, no, Vinum doesn't mirror partitions. What would you like it to do? > (Maybe I should look into the old ccd stuff if that is still around) It's still around. It only mirrors individual partitions. It also doesn't recover gracefully from failures. >> IDEs have changed, are much bigger and faster now and perhaps RAID >> 1 support will come for IDEs..??? Hope so. > > ACK. It's available under Vinum. 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