From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 16:53:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1A037B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0A0B36AB08; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:23:49 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:23:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jim C. Nasby" Cc: Darryl Okahata , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010906092348.M4447@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com>; from jim@nasby.net on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:18:58PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > >>> 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