From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 18 21: 0:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D099150C0 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:59:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09694; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:28:37 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA68657; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:28:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:28:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Craig Johnston Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently? Message-ID: <19990719132836.J65436@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Craig Johnston on Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 03:07:12PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 15:07:12 -0500, Craig Johnston wrote: > Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver > I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. > It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. > > Nice job Greg -- very straightforward. Thanks. > Now, the official status of vinum is still alpha, right? Wrong. It went out of alpha about a year ago. It's been released in 3.1 and 3.2. > But then again I know that that was (is?) the official status of > softupdates for quite some time and I have been using it with no > problems. > > So my question is, has anyone actually been bitten by vinum recently? > I'm willing to take my chances if I can at least be pretty sure that I > won't suddenly lose everything on both plexes if I am mirroring. That shouldn't happen. 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-hackers" in the body of the message