From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 20 13:12:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.uncanny.net (ns2.uncanny.net [140.174.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F40437B43E; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandbox.uncanny.net (sandbox.uncanny.net [140.174.20.254]) by ns2.uncanny.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA45822; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ee@uncanny.net) Message-Id: <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:51:29 PDT." <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:24:34 -0700 From: Edward Elhauge Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on your root partition. By Murphy's Law it always seems to be root that gets screwed up. And that also causes the biggest problems because then you have to yank the system apart and find another host disk for booting. Well spoken Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Edward Elhauge [000920 12:48] wrote: >> Hello Freebsders, >> >> I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from >> NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. >> >> I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how >> to work reliably with them. > >"man vinum" > >software mirroring == good. > >:) > >-Alfred -- Edward Elhauge -- Uncanny Inc., San Francisco "War is like love; it always finds a way." -- Bertold Brecht To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message