From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 16:24:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mw2.texas.net (mw2.texas.net [206.127.30.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5308537B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from staff3.texas.net (staff3.texas.net [207.207.0.40]) by mw2.texas.net (2.4/2.4) with ESMTP id SAA11368; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:24:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from doug@localhost) by staff3.texas.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA82948; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:24:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@texas.net) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:24:05 -0500 From: Douglas Swarin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: kkemp@nwcr.net Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000921182405.A82919@staff.texas.net> References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kkemp@nwcr.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:29:17PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no moving parts, mechanical failure is not an issue, and since the root partition is not written to much, the flash will not wear out for a long time (flash cells wear out after about 100,000 writes; the flash drives do load balancing and stuff to ensure that the (many) cells in the drive are written to evenly). Doug On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:29:17PM -0700, Keith Kemp wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message