Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:29:25 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Cc: dxoch <dxoch@escape.gr>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Question Message-ID: <3A550755.7F25AE45@nisser.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101041611290.38145-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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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 <g>. 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
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