Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:57:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? Message-ID: <20030726002720.GG5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <87he5dxdlo.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <7653953.1058991702@[192.168.0.2]> <87he5dxdlo.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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--pjXrr8OcmD/XY8aP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no> writes: > >> Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or >> will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? > > I end up with a single copy of '/'.=20 OK, missed that. The whole intention of the exercise I describe in the book is to have a mirrored root file system. This has been consistently the most demanded new feature in Vinum. > The reasons I do this are that: > > 1) Any old FreeBSD boot floppy/CD can read the "mirrors" of '/' in the ev= ent > that the root drive dies, regardless of the state of vinum. Makes > disaster recovery that much easier. The way I describe works as well in this situation. > 2) You get a little bit of versioning for free. Accidentally overwrite > /etc/master.passwd with mergemaster? Just grab the copy from > /rootbackup. A much better approach, which I'll describe in the next edition of the book, is to maintain all config files under RCS. This gives you more than one backup. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --pjXrr8OcmD/XY8aP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IcroIubykFB6QiMRAvO0AJ9ATlg5UQXVEnPTRwOExbEmEBXHqACfZEYh jokG/GdrxKsqwKYZFUo9gwA= =Z1cM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pjXrr8OcmD/XY8aP--
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