Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:44:37 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID] Message-ID: <199504061544.IAA29924@freefall.cdrom.com>
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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.
That would be most entirely useful. These days with disk prices being what
they are, mirroring is cheaper than a true RAID solution (heck of alot faster
too :)
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
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