[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Kris Kirby]

> I run parts of my business on IDE - but I also have redundant machines
> and load balancers, as well as NAS.  If/when one of my servers dies,
> nobody notices - and I can bring up a spare server in about 10 minutes
> to take it's place.  Of course, these are *appliances*, and fast disk
> I/O isn't necessary.

I'm not longer thrilled with IDE. I had a drive die and latch the bus, so
drive #3 could not be reached. So much for fault tolerant filesystems.

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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
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