From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 17: 1:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D9C37B41A for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:01:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0187.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.187] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gEwZ-0005oi-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:01:12 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7D8106.28D8D2F4@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:59:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: "Clark C . Evans" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm? References: <200202280008.g1S08co54485@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Ambrisko wrote: > | The issue is that the MTBF for IDE CDROM drives is very > | low, comparatively, when they are forced to a continuous > | duty cycle. This was discuseed two years ago, and I don't > | think the situation has improved any. 8-(. > > Actually 2 years ago it got much better to be a non-issue. 4 years > ago with IDE CD-ROMs it was sketchy. ... but what do I know being > responsible for manufacturing systems based on FreeBSD mounting root > via a CD-ROM in a dirty and hostile environment? Hey, Doug! I was basing my statement on the inability to use CDROMs for InterJets, which would have resolved the late-binding install issue for us. 8-). What's the MTBF for a CDROM being used as a swap backing store for program files and a root FS these days? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message