Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:55 AM -0400 2000/5/3, spork wrote:
>
> > Last I looked though, vinum cannot protect you from loss of your boot
> > device.
>
> I am told that in FreeBSD 4.0, vinum now has the ability to
> mirror the root filesystem. I don't know if this addresses the issue
> you are concerned about, but I personally find it very interesting.
Do you have any pointers to such information (ideally, something like a
"how-to")?
I do know that Greg Lehey has been investigating such functionality...
Thanks,
cno
> > For some applications this may not be terribly important, but if
> > you cannot afford to bring the machine down, the hardware solution starts
> > to look better.
>
> I must admit that hardware does have certain advantages, but it
> does require driver support from the OS (unless it's an external
> SCSI-SCSI model), and I believe that the primary things you gain with
> hardware RAID controllers is not performance but instead other
> advantages, including transparency to the OS, etc....
>
> If what you're after is absolute maximum speed for minimum money,
> hardware is not the way to go.
>
> --
> These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
> ======================================================================
> Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV
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