From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 21:57:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (unix-gw.gihs.sa.edu.au [203.63.40.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D70D37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (firewall.gihs.sa.edu.au [192.168.1.1]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECA42B7DE; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:47:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and surviving unclean shutdowns From: Andrew Reid To: Chris Fedde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com In-Reply-To: <200106260448.f5Q4m5O24533@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200106260448.f5Q4m5O24533@fedde.littleton.co.us> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10.99 (Preview Release) Date: 26 Jun 2001 14:18:11 +0930 Message-Id: <993530891.1187.0.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Jun 2001 22:48:04 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > FreeBSD with softupdates turned on will usually recover well from > a crash. Also on highly available critical systems I would not > choose to run software raid. Better to have hardware raid running 0+1 if you > need it or just buy big disks. With sendmail you can run multiqueue > with symbolic links to "subqueues" on each disk. How 'bout Vinum? Vinum seems to outperform some hardware RAID cards. Greg, is Vinum from a reliability point of view in high availability servers? > Also as you know now it might be a good idea to invest in a sensaphone or > some otherway of having your machine room tell you it is breaking Hmm.. I'm looking into SMS alerts now. > BTW I didn't realize that christmas island was 9.5 hours east. Christmas Island isn't, but South Australia is :-) - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message