[geeks] bah.

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> FreeBSD has not been the same since 4.x, and I recently dumped *ALL*  
> of my FreeBSD 6 and 7 servers due to reliability issues.
> 
> FreeBSD's ATA code has some serious issues, and so does geom RAID stuff.
> 
> The ATA code seems especially bad when using flash based IDE devices.
> 
> The geom stuff... it has burned me a lot.  The geom raid software will  
> happily destroy all your data with no warning either from the programs  
> or the man pages, and they frequently locked up FreeBSD 6 and 7.  I  
> have not tried FreeBSD 7.1 yet so things may have improved in that  
> release.

Huh.  I used the recommended geom method for boot disk mirroring ...
wonder if that was part of the problem?  And considering it was
mirroring SATA disks, that sounds like a possible double whammy.


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