From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 15:43:51 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 43E9A37B40C for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [216.254.40.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6135442CE for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from decibel@decibel.org) Received: (qmail 30210 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Jul 2002 21:07:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:06:59 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020712160659.F51502@flake.decibel.org> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: "Jim C. Nasby" , Steve O'Hara-Smith , laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:09:02PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net 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, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:09:02PM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > 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. This is new then, if it actually supports vinum. What is a SPAN? -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message