From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 11:41:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp0.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A2837B401; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p363.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.200.255]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f6OIfVa25160; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:41:31 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:41:31 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: mike@adept.org, jandrese@mitre.org, geniusj@bluenugget.net, mike@sentex.net, sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Message-Id: <20010724204131.355a3ae6.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010724093512W.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <3B5D94E7.4680ACEF@mitre.org> <20010724093512W.jkh@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 09:35:12 -0700 Jordan Hubbard wrote: JH> You want a server, use SCSI drives at the very minimum and some sort JH> of RAID product on top of that if it's really genuinely a server. The JH> hardware's cheap enough now that there's simply no excuse for not JH> taking such steps. Enough said. OT I know, but I have been seriously considering that since complete systems are sufficiently cheap these days (especially when built without RAID or SCSI) that it may make more sense to forgoe the SCSI and RAID in favour of a complete spare system and use a software mirror (or load duplication) to keep it available for a hot swap. One benefit of this approach is that the hardware is on *much* shorter lead times this way because it's all off the shelf and alternatives are feasible. There's more than one way to skin a cat. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message