> Interessting idea. Do you use a fossil only configuration and > mirroring with fs(3)?
I use fossil and venti with everything mirrored with fs(3) - each partition. I have two 7500 RPM "Enterprise grade" disks (i.e. better than average reliability) from two different manufacturers, the idea is one will die first :-) I created three seperate fs config partitions on the disks so I can have full mirroring, only disk1 or only disk2 so when one disk dies I sould be able to carry on after just chosing a different option at bootup (from plan9.ini). > Only are that there are only too two SATA ports. No space for > extensions in the future. Thats correct, the newer cards have more sata slots but two is OK for me, one each for the disks and a PATA slot for my DVDRW for long term backups. I can give you the disk config info when you come to that stage, I was planning to write it up as it was a bit of a pain copying the venti arenas from my old server (it need a 50 line script rather than a single command). -Steve
