Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:44:12 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: graid5 or gvinums - bootable? Message-ID: <46BE65EC.1050906@queue.to>
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Apologies in advance for the dumb question. I request a reality check here as it takes a few hours (on graid5 at least) on my hardware for the provider to sync and this is on a production box I can't take down for too long. Q: Should a graid5 or gvinum provider be expected to be bootable, assuming the prover's partition table has an active bootable partition containing a properly bsdlabeled 'a' slice with the /boot subdirectories in it (i.e., all of the stuff you normally need in an ordinary, non-geom system to have a bootable slice)? Teh googling is somewhat helpful indicating that the boot loader can now deal with the GEOM'd gvinum as the boot device, and of course it works with gmirror but that's not really surprising since that provider wouldn't doesn't have its /boot slice striped into ribbons across multiple consumers like graid5 and gvinum in raid-5.
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