From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 17: 2:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E516D37B662 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (nasby@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04994 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:02:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA26570 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:02:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:02:15 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum on root partition Message-ID: <20000420190214.K46955@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <38FF9375.3EA61E0C@101freeway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <38FF9375.3EA61E0C@101freeway.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The last time I asked Greg about this, he confirmed that vinum is not currently capable of this and that it was in the plans for the future. Unfortunately, there was some disagreement between Greg and one of the other FBSD folks recently which seemed to greatly demotivate Greg, so I don't know how much development we'll see on vinum in the near future :( dB! On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:32:05PM -0700, Hampton Maxwell wrote: > Is it possible to have a vinum mirrored volume as the root partition on > a 4.0-STABLE machine? I browsed the man pages and list archives which > seemed to suggest support would be added later but no confirmation of > whether it was in or how to implement it. > If not, anyone have suggestions on the best way to get fault tolerance > in the case that the drive with the root partition goes down. > > Thanks, > Hampton Maxwell > network administrator - 101freeway.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message