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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:05:06 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Vinum root file systems (was: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?)
Message-ID:  <20030311003506.GA45912@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E6BE734.4040804@mac.com>
References:  <20030309233502.GC1899@bubba.toscano.org> <3E6BE734.4040804@mac.com>

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On Sunday,  9 March 2003 at 20:15:32 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
> Generally, one cannot boot from a vinum based-device, unless you are
> only doing RAID-1 mirroring.

You can have a Vinum root file system as long as at least one plex is
concatenated from a single subdisk.

> I'm familar with something called "encapsulating the root partition"
> under Solaris and Veritas; it's not for the faint-of-heart.  :-)

I suspect this is the same thing.

Greg
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