On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID
> > (HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better...
>
> vinum in mirror mode is not supposed to be that good (apparently it does
> no integrity checking of the mirror). However, I am not an authoritative
> source on this.
You don't have to use vinum with hardware raid.
I almost fell for that, too. ;-)
OTOH, one other thing to be aware of with vinum (the software RAID bit
of FreeBSD) is that it doesn't support the root partition yet. AFAIK.
-Dom
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