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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
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