From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 11 8: 8:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFA315527 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11EYsR-0006RL-00; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:57:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Greg Lehey Cc: David Kelly , Mike Tancsa , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?)) In-Reply-To: <19990811161220.U31076@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Vinum is ok to prevent data loss. Not much better than a standalone > > disk for uptime. > > I don't understand what you mean here. Well, if your swap fails, the system will stop until swap is put onto another disk. The same for boot disk failure. No data will be lost, but the system will be down until root and/or swap is relocated. Hardware solutions don't have this problem. > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message