On Tuesday 08 November 2005 16.55, J.D. Bronson wrote: > At 09:30 AM 11/08/2005, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > >On Tuesday 08 November 2005 13.07, J.D. Bronson wrote: > > > At 12:21 AM 11/08/2005, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > > > >OK. > > > > > > > >Thanks for the reply > > > > > > > >B t w... What is "IM"? > > > > > > > > > > > >Regards > > > >Per-Olov > > > > > > Integrated Mirroring. > > > LSI cards that I tested work fine under OBSD, but > > > not the IM support. It is not there yet. If you > > > can -even- get it to mirror, performance is quite sub par. (at this > > > point) > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > -JD > > > >Yes it *seems* to work ok if I use the disks as > >single disks without mirroring > >or striping. Do you think there are any drawbacks with the card if I just > >skip mirroring? Can you trust the card? Is it just if IM is set up that > >causes problem? > > I dont recall *any* issue with running these > cards under openbsd as long as the mirror was not used. > There was no drawback. As an alternative...if you > use equal disks, you can slice and dice them (the > same as the main one) and then run rsync as often > as you like to create a pseudo 'offline' mirror. > Thats what I do with IDE machines....and the nice > thing, is that unlike a mirror...if I delete > something I can still grab it off the 2nd drive > as long as I hit it before the cron rsync runs :-) > > If I did have any issue (I really cant recall) it > would be on the mailing list archives. > > -JD
Yes, this is probably the second best option. (B t w. fix your faulty spam protection that rejects mail from static IP blocks as dynamic...) Thanks for your information Regards /Per-Olov -- GPG keyID: 4DB283CE GPG fingerprint: 45E8 3D0E DE05 B714 D549 45BC CFB4 BBE9 4DB2 83CE
