From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 19: 7:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FB737B53A for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:07:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA98401; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:37:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:37:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jim C. Nasby" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum on root partition Message-ID: <20000421113749.A7113@freebie.lemis.com> References: <38FF9375.3EA61E0C@101freeway.com> <20000420190214.K46955@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000420190214.K46955@enteract.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 20 April 2000 at 19:02:15 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > 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. > > 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. That must have been a while ago. I have the code ready to commit, but we need to change some other minor stuff first. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message