Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:27:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Walter Hafner <hafner@in.tum.de> Cc: Walter Hafner <hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: High availability and limited budget Message-ID: <19990511092712.K22791@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <14134.56471.598079.164483@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from Walter Hafner on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:18:15PM %2B0200 References: <srjhfprepb7.fsf@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <19990506083850.G40359@freebie.lemis.com> <14134.56471.598079.164483@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Monday, 10 May 1999 at 15:18:15 +0200, Walter Hafner wrote: >>> I need to build a high availability system, but have only a very limited >>> budget. > [...] >> >> With ccd, this requires a reboot and reconfiguration. You'd be better >> off using Vinum. >> >>> Note: I don't want to ose vinum, because of its beta stage. >> >> Which beta stage? > > You're still coding on it, right? Sure. Otherwise it would be obsolete. That doesn't make it a "beta stage". > Parts (mirroring, striping, etc) may be finished and production stable, > but other parts are not. > > I made the experience, that internal data structures, data layout > etc. of non-finished products may change. Even the finised parts may be > changed again. That's the case for FreeBSD as well. > Therefore, I run only fully released software on my production > machines. I know that this is no guarante for stability (take the > different MS-Word formats...), but I still think I'm better off this > way. I don't think you understand the issues. Vinum has been released. So has FreeBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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