Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:50:29 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software RAID 1... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020207125029.01959060@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <331344057202.20020207193136@buz.ch>
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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. Agree about the Fastrak too. FBSD is presetnly lacking on IDE RAID 1 support for those who would like this simple approach. SCSI is supported and probably results from the fact they are (were) much faster HDs, but IDEs have changed, are much bigger and faster now and perhaps RAID 1 support will come for IDEs..??? Hope so. At 07:31 PM 2.7.2002 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hello, >I'm looking for a software RAID 1 KISS solution. I know about vinum >but I don't really like the complexity it brings to the game... What >I'm looking for is simple: a driver/device that takes two identical >disks and simply copies every write to the device to both of the >drives so I always have identical copies of the drive. Balancing of >reads would be nice, but not ultimately needed. > >The reason why I'm looking for something like this are simple: >the cheap IDE RAID stuff (be it Promise Fastrak or Highpoint) is >simply crap. Have one disk fail and BSD does whatever it likes (aside >from continue to run)... > > > > >Best regards, > Gabriel > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 6.5i > >iQEVAwUBPGK5/MZa2WpymlDxAQHbHggAuu2F4fiUlWME5ivO4ktZ7Mm9nAwji47e >jA6UaKp4tGhgdAPngxrMPVAE4OPyrRZhukTtc8DEQvIbJTlnHmaI2Pp0JQmopSrp >tUUHOINd3VkAYByBJqdTrykDjTsMF37aPIGJHJ2nXaHSO2NX7k856pPzOOj3q3U2 >mBXWlB3ymKSI6VWJ7ALwgqbAqggXMnT2XEqZ402XTUnydQlhuCIGMwUACrXSrJ8N >btBTBAeg10cuOdNxcypUNOE4oEzzsGoErmZS6lKWpG5ojYxrV8eQqVafiQr33Z2u >a9SDb/OhpaNuzIAA5tt9lKvCYBDdgGN+Pv0La/ujGr92mONO46hFPA== >=WidF >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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