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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:51:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mirrored root fs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301061049290.10897-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301061829.h06ITpqE016796@spider.deepcore.dk>

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Soeren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Nate Lawson wrote:
> > I'd like to have a mirrored root partition.  I tried ccd(4) but the boot
> > blocks couldn't find the fs.  Any idea how much work it would take to
> > enable booting a ccd root?  Also, does vinum already support this?
> 
> If you use ATA drives you can use atacontrol to make the mirror on 
> two ATA disks, but there are some gotcha's, see atacontrol(1)....

Interesting.  To support booting, I'd probably need to hack /etc/rc to
enable the mirror before mounting fs r/w.  Also, does it matter which of
the /dev/ad* entries are used as the mount device?

-Nate


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