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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 1995 11:28:40 -0500 (GMT-0500)
From:      "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID]
Message-ID:  <199504041628.LAA00977@hq.icb.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <9504032233.AA09336@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 3, 95 04:33:29 pm

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> 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.

How about disk mirroring ? If you have a _mirrored_ database on two 2G
disks and then add 2x2G (or may be 1x4G) and get spanned mirrored database. 
You get reliability due to mirroring and easy expansion due to spanning.


		Serge Babkin

! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su)
! Headquarter of Joint Stock Bank "Chelindbank"
! Chelyabinsk, Russia



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