From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 3 21:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18934 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18929 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA13427; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 00:13:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Steve Ames , steve@inc.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Vinum on root partition (was: disk mirroring?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:09:46 +1030." <19981104150946.L784@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:13:21 -0500 Message-ID: <13423.910156401@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote in message ID <19981104150946.L784@freebie.lemis.com>: > > - requires that you start with either 'ccd' devices or 'vinum' volumes > > (existing data partitions need to be copied off and then back on...) Do you have background mirror creation/resynchronization? That seems to be a big thing missing from ccd. Its ok staying up after losing a disk, but if you have to keep the system down for a long period to dd the data around, that blows IMHO Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message