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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
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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.

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