Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 23:37:44 +1000 From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS... Message-ID: <977d19fe-d60e-1bf6-cf4f-cabe816449bc@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <ba47f075-e5c2-c6b3-c580-151568a2df6c@ingresso.co.uk> References: <3d0f6436-f3d7-6fee-ed81-a24d44223f2f@netfence.it> <17B373DA-4AFC-4D25-B776-0D0DED98B320@sorbs.net> <70fac2fe3f23f85dd442d93ffea368e1@ultra-secure.de> <70C87D93-D1F9-458E-9723-19F9777E6F12@sorbs.net> <CAGMYy3tYqvrKgk2c==WTwrH03uTN1xQifPRNxXccMsRE1spaRA@mail.gmail.com> <fe6880bc-d40a-2377-6bea-28bfd8229e9f@sorbs.net> <58DA896C-5312-47BC-8887-7680941A9AF2@sarenet.es> <cde21bb4-d741-3300-077f-745cfc343aa9@ingresso.co.uk> <C5403ADD-86C1-4184-BDA6-DA8C7426458E@sarenet.es> <62803130-9C40-4A98-B5A4-A2DFAC0FAD65@sorbs.net> <20190503125118.GA11226@neutralgood.org> <2A7B5457-371A-4014-8C1E-972BA2FD10DF@sorbs.net> <7b9ce013-e50c-7cfc-f5c1-c829855f8ee2@ingresso.co.uk> <0D6CF718-2D40-4457-ADAB-CC17B52124AA@sorbs.net> <d7b11f6f-d1ad-7f39-c3b9-aa4951727c1f@ingresso.co.uk> <CAOhm=5oO1xo=dyzZAaUJSU-UvnknH-CqdHDB-O1Ha%2B0298sbtA@mail.gmail.com> <28BE9C83-FA53-4856-9176-52A6CB113641@sorbs.net> <ba47f075-e5c2-c6b3-c580-151568a2df6c@ingresso.co.uk>
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Pete French wrote: > > > On 05/05/2019 04:06, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >> Which I find interesting in itself as I have a machine running 9.3 >> which started life as a 5.x (which tells you how old it is) and it’s >> still running on the same *compaq* raid5 with UFS on it... with the >> original drives, with a hot spare that still hasn’t been used... and >> the only thing done to it hardware wise is I replaced the motherboard >> 12 months ago as it just stopped POSTing and couldn’t work out what >> failed...never had a drive corruption barring the fscks following >> hard power issues... it went with me from Brisbane to Canberra, back >> to Brisbane by back of car, then to Malta, back from Malta and is >> still downstairs... it’s my primary MX server and primary resolver >> for home and handles around 5k email per day.. > > Heh, Ok, thats cool :-) Some of my old HP RAID systems started life as > Compaq ones - you never installed the firmware update which simply > changed the name it printed on boot then ? Umm, does it change the big startup "COMPAQ" graphic? If not then dunno... if it does... nope :) > > My personal server with the dead battery has been going at least 12 > years. Had to replace the drives (and HP SAS drives are still silly > prices sadly), one of the onboard ether ports has died, but otherwise > still going strong. IIRC i've put 3 new clock batteries in over the years... and it's all SCSI... 18GB (no SAS on the machine) :P ... (in fact, 32bit and not capable of driving a SAS card - unless you can get PCI or ISA SAS cards :P ) > > Not had the long distance travel of yours though. I did ship some > machines to Jersey once, but boat, and all the drives which had been > on the crossing failed one by one within a few months of arriving. > Makes me wonder how rough the sea that crossing actually was. The biggest issue I had was the idiots who unloaded the container at Customs.. not saying much except they loaded it backwards (literally) ... a 3KVA ups (with batteries in it) was put at the top and by the time it got from Botany to me it had made its way to the bottom... > Those were in a Compaq RAID pedestal too. After that I shipped > machines, but took the drives in my hand luggage on planes always. > Actiually, not sure they would let me do that these days, havent > triued in years. > Good question. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
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