Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:03:27 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CCD & booting on / Message-ID: <19980303100327.54315@deepo.prosa.dk>
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Stop me when I'm falling over the edge :-)
I'm interested in getting a machine with having every partition
as a CCD mirror -- including /.
I'm aware of the usual problem of having / as a ccd: the bootblocks
won't be able to read the partition, etc...
But I remember, on one setup using _mirroring_ (and only in that
case of course) where one of the disks died, I just rebooted
single user on the remaining disk, changed the ccdconfig
line to remove the defective disk, and ran ccdconfig with the same
options -- and I was up and running again, with a 1-sided mirror :-)
My question is: is there no workaround/unspeakable hack that
could be made, with CCD in the kernel, for the bootblocks to read
from the first of an N-part mirror, just to get past the boot ?
Yeah, I could of course have / = 2 MB and symlink everything
somewhere else :-P
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / Sysadmin ]-
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