From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 15:40:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E94CC14DE8 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from stordatan.telia.com (t1o70p15.telia.com [62.20.148.15]) by mailc.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18806 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:40:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stordatan.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA00906 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:39:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <377BEE3B.A10C4D8@partitur.se> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:39:55 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum for root partition? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I'm just setting up a system with two scsi drives, using vinum for mirroring only. Is it possible to use vinum for the also root partition somehow? I realize it not simple. Here's my disklabel (same for both drives): # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 144585 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 8) b: 803250 144585 swap # (Cyl. 9 - 58) c: 17928698 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1116*) e: 16980863 947835 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 59 - 1116*) My plan is to sync the the 'a' partitions, so if one disk dies, the other root partition is useable. But, I guess the system will have to reboot if the drive crashes, since the root fs will be unusable. I thought, maybe there's some way to fool the system with some disklabel "magic", or perhaps I can remount a different fs instead of remounting root read-write. Just a wild thought. Any comments? Maybe it's better to mfs mount the root somehow? I'm not sure how to do that in this case... /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message