From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 15:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spok.premier1.net (spok.premier1.net [64.38.159.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C6337B42C; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemp (ip-64-38-158-182.dialup.seanet.com [64.38.158.182]) by spok.premier1.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA06398; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:28:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Keith Kemp" To: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Edward Elhauge" Cc: , Subject: RE: Frustration with SCSI system Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:29:17 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On the topic of Vinum, what do you guys do about the / partion since it appears that a vinum partion can not be the boot partion. I would hate to have the drive with my boot partion fail and be left with a non working server. Keith Kemp > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alfred Perlstein > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:51 PM > To: Edward Elhauge > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system > > > * 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message