From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 21:10:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FBE14D46 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA92253; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:15:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912310515.AAA92253@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: RAID Arrays In-Reply-To: from Jaime Kikpole at "Dec 28, 1999 07:49:59 am" To: jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com (Jaime Kikpole) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:15:14 -0500 (EST) Cc: andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua (andrew), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaime Kikpole wrote, > On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, andrew wrote: > > Can I merge many FreeBSD partitions on different disks in one big > > partition? (like NetWare volumes). Please, if somebody know, help me. > > I have FreeBSD 3.2 installed. [snip] > The third idea is vinum. Check "man 8 vinum" for details about > that. Again, I think that you need to compile it into the kernel. No, vinum is a KLD, a dynamically loaded kernel module. See vinum(4), "KERNEL CONFIGURATION vinum is currently supplied as a kernel loadable module (kld), and does not require configuration. As with other klds, it is absolutely neces- sary to match the kld to the version of the operating system. Failure to do so will cause vinum to issue an error message and terminate. It is possible to configure vinum in the kernel, but this is not recom- mended. To do so, add this line to the kernel configuration file: pseudo-device vinum" A kernel rebuild is _NOT_ required and the docs actually recommend that it not be done. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message