Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:12:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Vinum (was: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?)) Message-ID: <19990811161220.U31076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908102110160.23357-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:12:14PM -0700 References: <199908110231.VAA50838@nospam.hiwaay.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908102110160.23357-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Tuesday, 10 August 1999 at 21:12:14 -0700, Tom wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, David Kelly wrote: > >> Mike Tancsa writes: >>> Unfortunately my budget is limited. I dont want to go with the cheapest >>> solution out there, nor can I afford the most expensive. For me, an >>> external RAID box will be a step up rather than relying on tape backups and >>> retiring old drives before they might have a chance to fail. >> >> At the prices I've seen tossed about, one could purchase twice as many >> drives and use vinum in a simple mirrored mode. Or better yet, buy a >> RAID-5 module from Greg Lehey? > > Except for failure of the boot or swap drive. Can swap be located > within vinum volumes? Yes, at least theoretically. I don't know if anybody has done it, but I haven't heard of any problems. > Vinum is ok to prevent data loss. Not much better than a standalone > disk for uptime. I don't understand what you mean here. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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