From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 17:52:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1183E37B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e850qHV28689; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:52:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:47:02 -0400 To: Greg Lehey From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <00090310375700.05988@www.runapplications.com> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:16 AM 9/5/2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >Vinum should handle (not "work around") failed drives. Replacing them >can be a little baroque. See >http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html for more details. > > > Any caveats ? > >None that I can think of. It's a good idea to read the documentation >before you start. Thanks! I have a test system I will play with for a while before deploying. BTW, is vinum in theory and practice as stable on ata drives as on SCSI ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message