Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:11:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19990929131139.Z96948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 03:31:54PM -0700 References: <199909282140.XAA97529@yedi.iaf.nl> <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 15:31:54 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> 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... Another reason might be the performance. Take a look at http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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