On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:34 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 10:01 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 16:17 +0100, andreas.sumper@nimbus.at wrote: > > [snip] > > > i have just got done installing sarge on a similar machine that is set > > > to boot off of the SAN. > > > > Out of curiosity, why not boot from a local disk, and leave the > > SAN for the data? > > i guess the idea is that the SAN is a single point of failure. But aren't single points of failure A Bad Thing? Does the QLogic SAN driver support redundancy (2 cards, both doing the same thing, so that if one card dies, the box keeps working)? > no sense > complicating the server with another moving part. A simple "little" 80GB IDE hard drive doesn't seem that complicated (unless you have a dozen boxes, which is a good reason for wanting to boot off the SAN). Booting off an IDE drive is about as simple/known/robust as one could imagine. No need for special drivers, work-arounds, etc. Maybe it's just me... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West
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