From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 1:35:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.siol.net (odin.siol.net [193.189.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B50F37B9E7 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 01:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomaz.borstnar@over.net) Received: from web.over.net ([213.250.60.137]) by mail.siol.net (InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license 3b7ff800a4377eede9efc7be81e8a7c4) with ESMTP id <20000810083522.FAIM28682.mail@web.over.net> for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:22 +0200 Received: from gonzales.over.net (gonzales [192.168.2.20]) by web.over.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4833E005 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.11.0.20000810103045.01f672b0@193.189.189.100> X-Sender: tmail@193.189.189.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.0.11 (Beta) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:35:17 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net> Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions In-Reply-To: <20000810094854.I47132@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.0.0.11.0.20000809112238.0250f6c0@193.189.189.100> <a04320412b5b68dd176c1@[172.54.6.185]> <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]> <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]> <20000809134715.G14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320412b5b68dd176c1@[172.54.6.185]> <20000809143318.H14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <5.0.0.11.0.20000809112238.0250f6c0@193.189.189.100> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message