Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:24:34 -0700 From: Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:51:29 PDT." <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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 <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote:
>* Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net> [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 <ee@uncanny.net> -- Uncanny Inc., San Francisco
"War is like love; it always finds a way." -- Bertold Brecht
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