From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 28 15:25:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F5114F1A for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id AAA31776; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:12:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA97529; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:40:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909282140.XAA97529@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" In-Reply-To: <199909280743.AAA14205@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Sep 28, 1999 0:43: 0 am" To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:40:12 +0200 (CEST) Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, grog@lemis.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ... > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Good software shouldn't panic. > > I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(. > > rather than having to recover each logical volume. It would also be > > nice if you could recover mirrored root/swap without needing to > > unmirror and re-mirror them. > > Hummm.. this may seem like a really stange question, but I'll throw > it out anyway: > > Would $9,000 paid to a developer here with immediate time avaliable > bring FreeBSD 3.x to a state of being able to replace our current use > of hardware raid to do Raid-1 mirroring with hot swap automagic > rebuild capabilities? (It would need to be production quality code > for very serious business, and completed in 3 weeks time.) > > Serious responses only please. Rod, Being in the hardware RAID business myself I cannot help asking: why do you want to loose the hardware RAID in favor of a software solution? Flexibility (just guessing) or price maybe? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message