From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 6 10:51:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57F837B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E393D43ED1 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 11071 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jan 2003 18:51:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:51:40 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Soeren Schmidt Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mirrored root fs? In-Reply-To: <200301061829.h06ITpqE016796@spider.deepcore.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message