* 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
