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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tezcat!gail.ripco.com!nntp.neu.edu!hypnos!dave From: dave@hypnos.neu.edu (Dave Brady) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: RAID sw? Date: 30 Sep 1996 19:56:01 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <52p8kh$jbj@chaos.dac.neu.edu> References: <chad-3009960810030001@sverige.pengar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hypnos.acs.neu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chad Leigh (chad@pengar.com) wrote: > I am wanting to setup a FreeBSD system to handle large amounts of email. > If possible I would like to have a raid stripe set (with parity? -- the > one where a disk failure can be recovered from). Is RAID (any level) > supported on FreeBSD? Are there any commercial implementations? > I would probably be using 2940 SCSI adapters. You might take a look at 'ccd,' which is included. It does striping (no parity capability, yet) and mirroring. I've been running three filesystems, each striped across two disks, on a 2940 for a month now, without a problem. -- Dave Brady Administrative Computer Services Sr. UNIX System Administrator Northeastern University dave@acs.neu.edu Suite 448CP Phone: (617) 373-4156 360 Huntington Avenue FAX: (617) 373-4354 Boston, MA 02115