From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 16:32:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDEB37B405 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55EA43F85 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:31:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 57A5351A70; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:01:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:01:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Duncan Young Message-ID: <20030423233156.GL49736@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <41371.192.107.26.131.1051112914.squirrel@www.duncanyoung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3xQkynibq3FKlJyM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41371.192.107.26.131.1051112914.squirrel@www.duncanyoung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gon=E7alves?= Subject: Re: Vinum in FreeBSD 4.x branch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:32:01 -0000 --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 23 April 2003 at 16:48:34 +0100, Duncan Young wrote: >> Hello fellow BSDers! >> >> I am about to install a new server on a corportate environment >> where failure is not an option (that's why I am installing >> FreeBSD :-) ). To minimize hard disk problems I intend to use >> Vinum. >> >> I just want to know how is the stability and robustness of >> Vinum in the 4.x branch. >> >> Best regards, >> Miguel Gon=E7alves >> >> PS: I know this is not a good thing to do but can you please >> CC to me as I am not on the list due to limitations of my >> mail server. Thanks again! > > Though I run vinum at home, I would actually suggest not using it in a > corperate environment. There are a couple of problems with it which make > it less than desirable. > > 1) No root disk support (well I last time I checked it didn't). This is > main reason not to use vinum. As has been mentioned in this thread already, this is no longer the case. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+pyJsIubykFB6QiMRAkLHAJ0QOmIG1P8sQZaXitVgcx/z3B7+IACghzBf koBkmUGhkSkvCBg0GcIe8KY= =0SfY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM--