Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:37:47 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i give up Message-ID: <4930E33B.30603@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <4930DD20.1020509@math.missouri.edu> References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <4930D7CE.4080909@psg.com> <4930DD20.1020509@math.missouri.edu>
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> I have had experiences where modern hardware is such that Linux will > work, and FreeBSD won't. So I find myself forced to use Linux. But I > find the experience so frustrating, that as soon as FreeBSD catches up > to that hardware - and this always seems to happen - I immediately go > back to FreeBSD. i am older and lazier. i run current so i can support newer stuff such as early zfs, ... but i am cautious with hardware, checking that current is known to run it before buying it. luckily, the list of what is supported is well documented. as far as disk controllers go, i have been burned by hardware raid too many times. i get the most reliable, simple, and fast (in that order) sata controller that is known to be supported, and use gmirror and zfs. with this approach, i have successfully recovered from drive deaths with this approach. randy
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