From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 28 23:11:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11960 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11954 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA28018; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:41:29 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971129174129.61865@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:41:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring References: <19971129151057.57891@lemis.com> <199711290638.RAA24377@mother.sneaker.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199711290638.RAA24377@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 05:38:57PM +1100 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 05:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >> -----[ Greg Lehey ]------------------------------ >> Booting is a different matter. > > I agree, (although if you had a list of alternatives to boot from...) > but, it's usually difficult to explain this to clueless suit type people > who have expectations of what the software they just bought can do. That's fine. They don't need to understand the technical background. They paid for a solution, now they want a solution. > I don't think many people would want to mirror their boot partition, since > it's pretty static. Right, assuming (as is common in SysV) that they have a separate boot partition, probably mounted on /stand. But the root file system is a whole different kettle of fish. > The people from Periphonics wanted $25,000 (USD 1995) for a 1 gig > scsi drive for the rack mounted Sun that sits in their IVR Box. Any > other drives void the warranty. We decided it was cheaper to void > the warranty. Yup, I'd understand that, especially when I consider how much the warranty is probably worth. > The disk in the Sun is already pre-partitioned (one big one), and those that > be wouldn't let me re-partition it sanely. Hence they wanted the whole > disk mirrored, boot and all. Sounds like SNI. A minimum of 5 partitions on a 1 GB drive, and the install utility is set up so that you just *can't* do without any of them. Greg