From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 4 15:31:11 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 15:31:09 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B9937B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA79717; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:29:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A550755.7F25AE45@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:29:25 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fred Clift Cc: dxoch , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fred Clift wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > >> dxoch wrote: > > >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. Something like that. Hassle it may be, but when that brown goo indeed hits the fan... Any, MO = Magneto-Optical thus MD would be Memory Disk? OTOH and referring to that shitty image, could also be a proctologist I guess ;). Haven't looked into that, was more thinking along the lines of a stack of floppies. If that bypasses the booting problem, works for me. Or I'm hoping it will anyway. One of these days I really must look into that. I had to boot a system just so some time ago, so I know it can be done. So if it is indeed just the loader that prevents the root from being under vinum's control... What could be a problem in this idyllic scenario is KLM. From what I've gather vinum prefers to be a KLM. Shouldn't really be a problem, but... Another one of those things I've successfully postponed . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message