From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 11: 9:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913DA37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.wanadoo.nl (smtp2.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B7343E31 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i1583.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.214.54]) by smtp2.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 339262053A; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:09:06 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:09:02 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: jim@nasby.net Cc: laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-Id: <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:15 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" wrote: JCN> No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is JCN> on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some Er - have you seen man atacontrol in RELENG_4 lately ? I will quote the most pertinent extract: Allthough the ATA driver allows for creating an ATA RAID on disks on any controller, there are restrictions. It is only pos­ sible to boot on an array if its either located on a "real" ATA RAID controller like the Promise or Highpoint controllers, or if the RAID declared is of RAID1 or SPAN type, in case of a SPAN the partition to boot must reside on the first disk in the SPAN So the answer is - yes you can. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message