From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 20 13:44: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A83837B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e8KKhah15539 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [fec0::104:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e8KKhlI04687; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id e8KKhhQ74579; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:42 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Edward Elhauge Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000920224341.A74548@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net>; from ee@uncanny.net on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Edward Elhauge wrote: > OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on > your root partition. By Murphy's Law it always seems to be root that gets > screwed up. And that also causes the biggest problems because then you > have to yank the system apart and find another host disk for booting. The root Filesytems doesn't really change. In general if you don't edit something in /etc or add accounts you can even be happy with a readonly /. I can't see any needs for mirrors beside that the host should keep running in case of a disk failure. A simple backup of the small /etc is sufficient. You don't have to find a new / disk if you already created one. A mirror would allocate it anyway. Nevertheless Greg showed me an df output with a mirrored / filesystem but as I usually have stone old drives (90M drives are more than enough ;) for / I never tried it myself because I don't own 2 identic of them. I don't know if it was plain vinum or some magic. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message