Top posting only because this phone's current Email client forces me to. I think that admonition looks like it was in regards to my post. A ">" or two are absent. The link was Tyler's, not mine.
-- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. roberth <rob...@openbsd.pap.st> wrote: On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:38:46 -0700 Tyler Morgan <tyl...@tradetech.net> wrote: > On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: > http://www.ec (plz all stop pushing that links search engine rank.) > I think this is mainly due to the fact that softraid can't be used > for the root partition (or booted off of, for now). This leads > everyone to follow RAIDFrame guides to install OpenBSD onto software > RAID1, but nobody bothers to mention that RAIDFrame isn't actually > maintained anymore. > > And I have a feeling it's why my routers crash once every few months > or so with some odd, sd0/sd1 related FIFO errors (using SSDs too...). > I'm currently pulling RAIDFrame out of various routers and not using > any RAID at all anymore -- CARP + pfsync + duplicate hardware is > enough for what these routers do. > > In no way am I blaming anyone here -- it's obviously my fault that I > didn't read the 4.7 FAQ closer and learn about softraid -- but I > think large amounts of people are being lead to RAIDFrame via Google > without fully realizing what they are using or why they might be > making a bad decision. Along the line of: "Why tf doesn't my root-partition change often enough, so that i am not ok by simply using ALTROOT? Didn't expect me to read the afterboot manpage as i was prompted, didn't you?" (Not addressing you personally, just picking up the vibe.)
