From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 15 16:42:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out1.mx.skynet.be (out1.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D830114A2C for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.238.48] (dialup880.brussels2.skynet.be [194.78.238.48]) by out1.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id BAA24895; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:42:04 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <37E0055B.F8C31A58@tmbtax.ru> References: <37E0055B.F8C31A58@tmbtax.ru> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:21:48 +0200 To: anthony@tmbtax.ru, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: [Q] HotPlug HDD & vinum Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:45 AM +0400 1999/9/16, =?koi8-r?Q?=E1=CE=D4=CF=CE=20=E1=CE=C1=D4=CF=CC=D8=C5=D7=C9=DE wrote: > I planning to build new intranet server based of 3-STABLE. > Buying of hardware RAID is a bit expensive for me and AFAIK, vinum is > the best solution for me. > Is it possible to use HotPlug HDD feature under vinum, and if "yes" - > HowTo? The equipment I'm aware of supporting a hot swap feature is expensive, and requires support from the OS and/or the drivers to enable the hot swap features. I do not believe that this support can be found in vinum, nor do I believe that it can be found in FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE. If you're going to spend that kind of money for hot swap drives, then I think the cost of a hardware RAID controller would be a relatively minimal addition. There's no sense trying to do this on the cheap for the controller, when you're then going to go out and spend all that much money on the hot swap drives. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message