Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:43:42 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Edward Elhauge <ee@uncanny.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system Message-ID: <20000920224341.A74548@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net>; from ee@uncanny.net on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700 References: <20000920125128.F9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009202024.NAA45822@ns2.uncanny.net>
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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
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