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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, grog@lemis.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System crash on "vinum start"
Message-ID:  <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <199909282140.XAA97529@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 28, 1999 11:40:12 pm"

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> 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?

Because DPT has screwed this customer over for the last time...


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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