On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:

:> > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from
:> > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement.
:> > 
:> > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how
:> > to work reliably with them.
:> 
:> "man vinum"
:> 
:> software mirroring == good.
:> 
:What would be the incentives to using vinum instead of simply
:concatenating drives in a RAID-1 array (or whatever) using ccd(4)?

Concatenating drives is a decidedly different thing than mirroring them is.
Mirroring allows you to recover from failed disks without having to restore
from tape.  

David




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