Date: 26 Jun 2001 14:18:11 +0930 From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD and surviving unclean shutdowns Message-ID: <993530891.1187.0.camel@percible.alfred.cx> In-Reply-To: <200106260448.f5Q4m5O24533@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200106260448.f5Q4m5O24533@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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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
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