From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 23:14:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8870515134 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id IAA11344 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:12:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id B3D9387B6; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:01:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:01:13 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? Message-ID: <19990407080113.A4122@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Hackers References: <19990407085435.M2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990407085435.M2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:54:35AM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5173 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > boot loads the kernel from /boot/kernel. > kernel initializes, including Vinum if desired, and > loads the root file system > The kernel data file is still available via a symlink from /kernel > to /boot/kernel, or as a copy somewhere. HP-UX uses a similar scheme with /stand/vmunix (and /stand/system for tuned parameters). /stand is always an HFS (aka UFS) whereas all the other FS can be VxFS. Speaking of HP, their LVM system is cool. Now, that would be a nice addition to vinum (please don't look at me, I'm not a FS expert). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message