Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:48:06 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> Cc: Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000920134806.L9141@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000920224341.A74548@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:43:42PM %2B0200 References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net> <20000920224341.A74548@cicely5.cicely.de>
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* Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> [000920 13:43] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Edward Elhauge wrote: > > OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on > > your root partition. By Murphy's Law it always seems to be root that gets > > screwed up. And that also causes the biggest problems because then you > > have to yank the system apart and find another host disk for booting. > > The root Filesytems doesn't really change. > In general if you don't edit something in /etc or add accounts you can > even be happy with a readonly /. > I can't see any needs for mirrors beside that the host should keep running > in case of a disk failure. A simple backup of the small /etc is sufficient. There's a "Zen of backup" somewhere that explains why you want to backup system files. Basically: hotswap spare read-only / and /usr == near 0 downtime, reinstall the OS == 20-120 minutes of downtime. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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