From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 18:24:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9C237B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp02453773pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.55.91.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E03E43E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAD2OThj001060; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:24:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:24:28 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi To: Toomas Aas Cc: "Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo)" , Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager In-Reply-To: <200211121910.gACJA7801999@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Message-ID: <20021112212148.L1038-100000@radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But it could be a kernel compile option, such as NetBSD's and OpenBSD's RAIDFrame. I set up a server with NetBSD with the root partition on RAID the other day - works fine. Only problem is that I had to have the kernel in a non-RAID partition. In the case of vinum, I suppose one would have to have the kernel and modules on a non-RAID partition. That is, assumming Mr. Lehey add support for this. :-) Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > > I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, > > install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). > > Is this possible? > > It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right now, > so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not possible to have > root partition on vinum volume, at least in FreeBSD 4.x. > > It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the > support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then > you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume. > Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message