Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:07:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: danny@i-p-d.nl, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20010421100704.A97904@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3AE0D5DF.6C5B3C42@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:35:43AM %2B1000 References: <3AE05058.28191.14F5EC5@localhost> <3AE0D5DF.6C5B3C42@quake.com.au>
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On Saturday, 21 April 2001 at 10:35:43 +1000, Kal Torak wrote: > danny@i-p-d.nl wrote: >> >> I have been trying to setup vinum to mirror my first harddisk on a >> second identical harddisk. I get the feeling that it is not possible to >> mirror the first disk, as it is my FreeBSD bootdisk. Is that right? >> >> I want to have a working FreeBSD-machine with a second >> harddisk, that is working as an exact copy of the first disk, so if my >> first drive fails, the second disk takes over, or at least has a most >> recent copy. Will that work with vinum, or isn't that possible? > > The mirroring will work fine, but vinum loads after the root partition > is mounted... > > So the mirror the root partition you will need to have vinum load before > this, it should be possible... You should ask Greg Lehey about it, since > he is "the vinum guy" :) Loading VInum earlier is simple. I even had root file system support running about a year ago. The difficult part is finding out which disks and partitions are attached to the system: at this point, since the root file system isn't mounted, there are no device nodes (except on -CURRENT with devfs). The method I used was deemed unsuitable on the FreeBSD-arch list, so I'm now looking for an alternative. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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