Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:44:11 +0100 From: Oliver Humpage <bittern@blueyonder.co.uk> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, oliver@watershed.co.uk Subject: Re: Odd vinum config Message-ID: <7BFBD5E4-A405-11D6-8DE2-000A2795CB26@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020730214035.GF95493@dan.emsphone.com>
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Makes note to self: searching in man pages doesn't wrap! I'd already looked for 'read policy' but hadn't found it. Sorry :) Oliver. On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 10:40 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 30), Oliver Humpage said: >> Is it possible to set up a mirrored volume in vinum, but only set *one* >> of the plexes to be used for reading? >> >> The reason I'm asking is that I'm making a Network Attached Storage >> box, >> which I think should have SCSI disks and RAID 1. Unfortunately, our >> budget doesn't stretch to 8 73GB SCSI drives :-) So I wondered about >> having 4 73GB SCSI drives concatenated for the main storage space, >> and 2 >> 160GB IDE drives (also concatenated) as a RAID 1 mirror. However, I >> don't want to put too much load on the IDE drives, so I thought perhaps >> vinum could be set *not* to read from them, merely to write (although, >> if a SCSI drive failed, of course it would have to read from them!). > > man vinum, search for readpol > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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