If your firewall has to run in not so hostile conditions like sub-zero temperatures or large temp differences over short time (typically right under the roof), consider using flash memory (CF-ATA converters being available around 20 USD) instead of hard disk + eventually mfs for some logging or so. We're running and know about hundreds of settings like this without any serious problems and very minimal percentage of failures.
2010/5/20, Henning Brauer <[email protected]>: > * John Rowe <[email protected]> [2010-05-20 16:02]: >> I need an inexpensive OpenBSD system that will survive a disk failure, >> to act as a firewall. > > wrong approach, see below > >> My understanding from the on-line documentation and the list archives is >> that the new RAID system, softraid, does not support having the root >> partition on RAID meaning that if the system disk fails the machine >> crashes. >> >> Is this (still) correct? > > yes. it'll change eventually. > >> If so, the installation notes for 4.7 suggest against using RAIDframe >> (and even mis-spell the hyperlink!), which raises two further questions: >> >> What is the most recent OpenBSD release that does support and document >> installing on to RAID? > > none. > > it's pointless anyway. use two machines and carp, et voila, resilent > against a lot more things than just disk failures. > > -- > Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services > Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting > > -- Martin PelikC!n, Steadynet E-mail: [email protected], gpg key 0x7176E4C9 Tel: +420 724 818 573 Jabber: [email protected] web: http://cap.potazmo.cz/
