From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 18: 3:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834F4159DA for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:03:22 -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 JAA20774; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:27:13 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA61756; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:27:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:27:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Walter Hafner Cc: Walter Hafner , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: High availability and limited budget Message-ID: <19990511092712.K22791@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990506083850.G40359@freebie.lemis.com> <14134.56471.598079.164483@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <14134.56471.598079.164483@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from Walter Hafner on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:18:15PM +0200 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 10 May 1999 at 15:18:15 +0200, Walter Hafner wrote: >>> I need to build a high availability system, but have only a very limited >>> budget. > [...] >> >> With ccd, this requires a reboot and reconfiguration. You'd be better >> off using Vinum. >> >>> Note: I don't want to ose vinum, because of its beta stage. >> >> Which beta stage? > > You're still coding on it, right? Sure. Otherwise it would be obsolete. That doesn't make it a "beta stage". > Parts (mirroring, striping, etc) may be finished and production stable, > but other parts are not. > > I made the experience, that internal data structures, data layout > etc. of non-finished products may change. Even the finised parts may be > changed again. That's the case for FreeBSD as well. > Therefore, I run only fully released software on my production > machines. I know that this is no guarante for stability (take the > different MS-Word formats...), but I still think I'm better off this > way. I don't think you understand the issues. Vinum has been released. So has FreeBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message