From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 9:21:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (snafu.adept.org [63.201.63.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F8737B405 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E66C79EE06; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF729B00C; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:21:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: Shawn Workman Cc: Mixtim , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... In-Reply-To: <00bb01c1145c$351219d0$b500000a@fernan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Shawn Workman wrote: > > Its only unsafe if you lose power. I think that anyone running a > > "server" without a UPS deserves to lose data. First, there's an infinite number of variables that can lead to power loss. Think about it. > Especially the ones without recent backups... Second, should I be forced to use backups in a situation where I wouldn't have had to otherwise? I'm thinking in terms of uptime here. Time restoring from tape is not 'up' time. Later, -Mike -- Log analysis mailing list: http://www.adept.org/mailinglists.html#logwatchers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message