Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:12:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912120712.AAA37066@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:41:25 PST." <199912120141.RAA00880@mass.cdrom.com> References: <199912120141.RAA00880@mass.cdrom.com>
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In message <199912120141.RAA00880@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : This is the usual poorly thought out argument, which fails to note that : when you lose a disk you're already screwed due by /etc/fstab and the : need to hard-mount local filesystems. No. You aren't screwed. I have a system that needs /, /var, /usr and /usr/local (all on one disk) to boot, but puts the fsck/mount of all the other file systems into the background. If one of them fails, all the others are still available. : The "right" solution is and has always been to name your disks and mount : them by name. Once devfs is a reality, we'll be able to do just this. : Until then, the problem's not really as bad as you make it out to be. I'd have to disagree with this. I was constantly getting burned by the scsi system until I started hard wiring my scsi disks. The JAZ drive I have had a period in its life when sometimes it wouldn't power on (due to a bad power connection it was later discovered), so sometimes at boot the system would see it and sometimes not. My /jaz partition would wound up being where my /big partition should be and my /big partition wouldn't be there at all when this happened. After hardwiring, /jaz was the only one affected. The same issue is there with ethernet interfaces too, btw. I have a server that has 2 single fxp cards and 4 dual fxp cards. We need to replace one of the single fxp cards with a dual one (no more slots and need another interface), but to do this will require lots of renumbering/cable shuffle, etc because ALL the interface numbers will change when we do this. I'm not convinced that the "right" solution is really "right" here. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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