From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 16:33:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3937B404 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302C243F93 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A66C951A55; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:05:06 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:05:06 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd Questions Subject: Vinum root file systems (was: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?) Message-ID: <20030311003506.GA45912@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030309233502.GC1899@bubba.toscano.org> <3E6BE734.4040804@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E6BE734.4040804@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+bS86IubykFB6QiMRAvBsAJ4ptBJctjhMS48JIp0p0OiZjt6MRACeLfZN F5YWGZDbhrocgEb+qkxm1ag= =r2WU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message