Vinum in FreeBSD 4.x branch

Tillman tillman at seekingfire.com
Thu Apr 24 06:54:03 PDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:30:14AM +0100, Duncan Young wrote:
> 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 have a different viewpoint: if this is supposed to be in a corporate
environment, don't set up up the less competent folks for failure by
having them inherit a system that they're not capable of supporting.
This is a staffing issue, not a technical issue.

-T


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