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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:17 +0200
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From: Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net>
Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions
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At 02:18 10.8.00, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> You should only put file systems on volumes, but you can't put / on a
> >> volume.  That's exactly the issue: it's not that it can't be mirrored,
> >> it just can't be a Vinum volume yet.
> > Read-only boot floppy variant where only critical things are there
> > and the rest is via vinum? How hard would it be?
>
>If you're talking about a read-only root file system, yes, it's
>possible.
How about small partition on disk just to boot kernel which gets replicated 
to another disk at startup via dump/restore and the rest is via vinum. Bios 
can be set to boot from second disk if first failed (as moderen Bioses 
allow) and since kernel can be read from any device and /etc/fstab would 
contain only vinum devices it should work. Right?

Then we just need some major beeping, mailing, etc to notify admins about 
failed disk.

Tomaz



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