From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 19: 2:40 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 D00C537B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:02:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B47A43E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:02:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 74ED551900; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:32:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:32:34 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Toomas Aas Cc: Rodrigo Luiz Vargas Costa , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager Message-ID: <20021113030234.GD2919@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5B6FD7EC4292D6119A8100508B676C5C018F5998@BZ0017EXCH002U> <200211121910.gACJA7801999@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211121910.gACJA7801999@lv.raad.tartu.ee> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, 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, Correct. It was 3 am here. > 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. Also correct. > 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 :-) In fact, there are tricks to work around this. I had the root file system on a Vinum volume nearly three years ago, but there were objections to the tricks I was using. I'm still planning to update things. It's not very much work, but I haven't found the time yet. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message