Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:23:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010906092348.M4447@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com>; from jim@nasby.net on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:18:58PM -0500 References: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com>
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On Wednesday, 5 September 2001 at 18:18:58 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > <snip> >>> I had /usr on a vinum-controlled partition, and upgrading FreeBSD >>> via CDs was a royal pain. I basically had to do the upgrade to >>> the root drive (moving /usr out of the way, rebuild the kernel >>> with vinum, reboot, and then copy/move the contents of /usr into >>> the vinum-controlled /usr -- bleah). >>> >>> [ Today, I should be able to kldload vinum, but I don't think I can do >>> this at install time from the CDROM, and so I'd still have to play >>> games with /usr. ] >> >> Yes, currently installing on Vinum is a pain. But vinum(8) loads the >> kld automatically, and I suspect that you should be able to load it >> during the installation process. The problem is that sysinstall >> doesn't know about Vinum. >> > > On the same vein, is booting off of vinum in the works yet? I know > it's been looked into... It seems that would be one of the biggest > advantages that hardware raid has over vinum. I'm working on it at the moment. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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