From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 17:11:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22894 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22882 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA11489; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:41:15 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808050011.JAA11489@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Taylor cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: couple of questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 14:05:31 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:41:15 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > - multi-disk file systems > > - in the chart he references Caldera having "md" - I'm not sure > what this is. Any ideas? My interpretation was say /usr on > 1 disk, /tmp on another or something, but I'm still waiting for > an answer. If it helps he has "volume sets" listed under NT and > ODM under SCO Unixware This is probably similar to the ccd device, which allows you to glue devices together (like software RAID). It can also do disk mirroring, but it won't recover automatically from an error or anything fancy like that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message