Vinum in FreeBSD 4.x branch

[Duncan Young]

I stand corrected on the root disk issue.

Even so I would still recommend hardware mirroring.  Its just simpler, more 
proven, etc.  Idealy you get something with hot swap drives.  If you have a 
disk failure, order a new drive, pull out the old, in with the new, and hour 
later and no-one is the wiser.

Remember this is supposed to be in a corporate environment where "failure is
not an option".  Getting vinum to set up root disks is "fiddly" and whomever 
will support the box tomorrow, may not be as compentent as whomever sets it 
up today.  When things go wrong, the simplest setup is best.

I do intend root mirroring my home machines (now that I know it can be done), 
but in a production environment, being conservative is preferable, especially 
if money can be traded for complexity.

Duncan


On Thursday 24 Apr 2003 12:31 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 April 2003 at 16:48:34 +0100, Duncan Young wrote:
> >> Hello fellow BSDers!
> >>
> >> I am about to install a new server on a corportate environment
> >> where failure is not an option (that's why I am installing
> >> FreeBSD :-) ). To minimize hard disk problems I intend to use
> >> Vinum.
> >>
> >> I just want to know how is the stability and robustness of
> >> Vinum in the 4.x branch.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Miguel Gonçalves
> >>
> >> PS: I know this is not a good thing to do but can you please
> >> CC to me as I am not on the list due to limitations of my
> >> mail server. Thanks again!
> >
> > Though I run vinum at home, I would actually suggest not using it in a
> > corperate environment.  There are a couple of problems with it which make
> > it less than desirable.
> >
> > 1) No root disk support (well I last time I checked it didn't).  This is
> > main reason not to use vinum.
>
> As has been mentioned in this thread already, this is no longer the
> case.
>
> Greg
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