Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 19:11:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: PVinci@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID] Message-ID: <199504040011.TAA20659@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <9504032233.AA09336@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 3, 95 04:33:29 pm
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> > > Spanning is simply a tools for easing the administrative burden; > > Sounds like you added to it. You had to set up the drives spanned, and do > > a tape restore of every file system. I only had to do a tape restore of > > /usr... I copied /home right over. > I was lazy, and I got away without the copy/restore/slice_move. But you didn't... you had to mkfs both home and usr to grow them. > But, again, the risk is increased by the spanning, which was the point > of the post... that spanning is nearly useless without additional > support changes to increase reliability. Nonsense. Spanning is *very* useful if you don't span multiple file systems. Your backups become more critical, but you're doing nightly incrementals onto DAT with Amanda anyway, right?
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