On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 15:31:54 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ...
>>>> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>>> Good software shouldn't panic.
>>>> I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(.
>>
>>>> rather than having to recover each logical volume. It would also be
>>>> nice if you could recover mirrored root/swap without needing to
>>>> unmirror and re-mirror them.
>>>
>>> Hummm.. this may seem like a really stange question, but I'll throw
>>> it out anyway:
>>>
>>> Would $9,000 paid to a developer here with immediate time avaliable
>>> bring FreeBSD 3.x to a state of being able to replace our current use
>>> of hardware raid to do Raid-1 mirroring with hot swap automagic
>>> rebuild capabilities? (It would need to be production quality code
>>> for very serious business, and completed in 3 weeks time.)
>>>
>>> Serious responses only please.
>>
>> Rod,
>>
>> Being in the hardware RAID business myself I cannot help asking: why do you
>> want to loose the hardware RAID in favor of a software solution? Flexibility
>> (just guessing) or price maybe?
>
> Because DPT has screwed this customer over for the last time...
Another reason might be the performance. Take a look at
http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html.
Greg
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