From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 17:27:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B56037B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76ED343F85 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7F463526C1; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:57:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:57:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20030726002720.GG5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <7653953.1058991702@[192.168.0.2]> <87he5dxdlo.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pjXrr8OcmD/XY8aP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87he5dxdlo.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:27:24 -0000 --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 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--