From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 18:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10499 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:11:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA10470 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:11:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 5020 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1998 01:51:59 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:51:58 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Subject: RE: SCSI Bus redundancy... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, blkirk@float.eli.net, jdn@acp.qiv.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, grog@lemis.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Mar-98 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: >> ---------- >> From: Greg Lehey[SMTP:grog@lemis.com] >> >> My question ("How can that work?") was based on the misassumption that >> this would be too much work to be justifiable. >> > It's still a lot less work than put everything to tape, drop current > filesystems, drop current logical volumes, drop RAID group, create > new RAID group, create new logical volumes, create new filesystems, > restore everything from tape :-) If the tape still works, and is readable (have some good horror stories on dump/restore to tell). ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message