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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:57:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum (was: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?))
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908110654550.24747-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990811161220.U31076@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> >   Vinum is ok to prevent data loss.  Not much better than a standalone
> > disk for uptime.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean here.

  Well, if your swap fails, the system will stop until swap is put onto
another disk.  The same for boot disk failure.  No data will be lost, but
the system will be down until root and/or swap is relocated.  Hardware
solutions don't have this problem.

> Greg
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> 

Tom



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