From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 9:44:38 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 D76D637B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (office.netstyle.com.ua [213.186.199.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4704A43E67 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6CGiK8R080554; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:44:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6CGiDBg080553; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:44:13 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:44:13 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: "Jim C. Nasby" Cc: Lasse Laursen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020712164413.GO45527@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 Hello, Jim C. Nasby! On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:10:15AM -0500, you wrote: > No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is > on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some > point. I don't think so, it seems that grog@FreeBSD.org forgot about vinum and don't want to fix even known bugs (you can look at cvs logs via cvsweb.freebsd.org). Sources haven't been updated for over 2 years (those that are newer are only cosmetic changes). Also, Greg don't accept any PRs on vinum, rejecting it with reason 'pilot error' or 'read here'. I hate vinum but I should use it (I have only IDE HDDs and no RAID, and I should run disk-time-consuming cvsupd). For now I'm testing in lab RAIDframe (http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/rf/) which is port from NetBSD's system software RAID. It looks much more stable than vinum, have very good fool-proof features (unlike vinum). Reasonable error and diagnostic messages, very simple configuration. With vinum I've already had 3 unrecoverable crashes (on mirroring, which is supposed to be 'safe-me' solution), and 5 kernel panics (yes, Greg, I have vinum compiled as kernel module, not compiled in). With RAIDframe I haven't experienced ANY problem at all for more than 2 month of extensive testing in lab. And yes, you can boot from RAIDframe device. I hope that GEOM will be avaliable in 5.0. > You can come close to this approach with manual methods, though. > See the bootstrapping article for more info. > > Vinum wishlist: > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/wishlist.html > > Article about bootstrapping vinum: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:14:44PM +0200, Lasse Laursen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently in the process of upgrading our Linux servers to FreeBSD. The > > Linux servers uses software raid 1 on the boot/root partitions - is there a > > way to do the same under FreeBSD 4.6? -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message