Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 10:15:01 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :BTW, it's pretty trivial to change things. Run 'disklabel -e da0' (or > :whatever your drive is), duplicate the line and change to, say: > : > : c: 453226440unused 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 2810*) > : e

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:BTW, it's pretty trivial to change things. Run 'disklabel -e da0' (or :whatever your drive is), duplicate the line and change to, say: : : c: 453226440unused 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 2810*) : e: 4532264404.2BSD 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 2810*

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 1 November 1999 at 17:49:29 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: >> ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you don't need to adjust the disklabel. Th

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 10:42:21 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 19:53:51 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: > >> > >>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > > ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you > > > don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, > > > and you can't use the C partitio

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 30 October 1999 at 6:14:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Because Vinum is being maintained, and because Vinum will allow you to >> stripe your disks instead of simple concatenate them, which will probably >> result in better I/O rates. > > Some simple measurements shows ccd to b

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 19:53:51 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: >> >>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you > > don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, > > and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type > > 4.2BSD. > > Does that

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-31 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: > > > I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x205.html > > I am the author of said document ;) > > > It seems that

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Tor . Egge
> Because Vinum is being maintained, and because Vinum will allow you to > stripe your disks instead of simple concatenate them, which will probably > result in better I/O rates. Some simple measurements shows ccd to be slightly faster when striping 11 disks, then running 130 threads reading 1MB

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 29 October 1999 at 12:05, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and because Vinum will allow you to stripe your disks instead of > simple concatenate them, which will probably result in better I/O > rates. To be fair, ccd also allows you to stripe your disks. I find vinum far easier to use

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Wes Peters
"Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > > On 28 Oct, Wes Peters wrote: > > "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > >> > >> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at > > > > Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? > > No, but why should I use Vinum over CCD? (All I want to do

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: > I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x205.html I am the author of said document ;) > It seems that this page needs to be updated to include the FAQ > entry between the ccdc

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Shaun Amy, CSIRO TIP/ATNF
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On 28 Oct, Wes Peters wrote: >> "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at >> >> Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? > >No, but why should I use Vinum over CCD? (All I want to

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
On 28 Oct, Wes Peters wrote: > "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: >> >> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at > > Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? No, but why should I use Vinum over CCD? (All I want to do is create some larger disks). I just did a se

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-28 Thread Wes Peters
"Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > > I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Soft