Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:15:45 +1000 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: jacks@sage-american.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Software RAID 1... Message-ID: <20020210151545.B4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <781345989861.20020207200349@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:03:49PM %2B0100 References: <3.0.5.32.20020207125029.01959060@mail.sage-american.com> <781345989861.20020207200349@buz.ch>
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[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
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