From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 4 14:52:16 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 14:52:13 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8333D37B402 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3617E3BF116 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:52:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f04MqCn25893; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:52:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:14:24 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net To: Roelof Osinga Cc: dxoch , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Question In-Reply-To: <3A54F14C.70C55E78@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Roelof Osinga wrote: >> dxoch wrote: >> never succeed to use a > Vinum volume as a root >> partition. Is it possible, and how? > Last I looked it was not possible. Forgot the reason why, though. > If interested then try the mailarchive, ought to be in there somewhere. From what I understand, the boot-loader doesn't grok vinum partitions. If you wanted to get really complicated, you could boot from an MD image for your root file-system and re-arrange things so that all the stuff that needs to be dynamic lives on a vinum partition and just use the MD image for booting. Then you're fairly insulated from disk-failure -- root is in memory and /usr + your other data is mirrored. It is a hassle though. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message