Hello Richard, Thursday, May 31, 2007, 10:59:04 PM, you wrote:
>> >> Having 2 cards would certainly make the "unlikely replacement" of a card >> a LOT more straight-forward than a single-card failure... Much of this >> would depend on the quality of these CF-cards and how they put up under >> load/stress/time.... RE> Disagree. With two cards, you have to implement software mirroring of RE> some sort. While ZFS is a step in the right direction (simplifying the RE> process) it is unproven for long term system administration. The costs RE> of implementing software mirroring occur in the complexity of managing RE> the software environment over time as upgrades and patches occur. RE> Reliability tends to trump availability for this reason. I don't know - I've been using SVM to mirror boot disks for years on several servers and I belive management is better than dealing with different PCI RAID cards, different BIOS'es (on-board RAID), different tools, different failure scenarios, etc. Or maybe you were thinking no-raid-at-all vs. mirror... -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
