From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 7:10:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C9637B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [216.254.40.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1CA343E54 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from decibel@decibel.org) Received: (qmail 79460 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jul 2002 14:10:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:15 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Lasse Laursen Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: "Jim C. Nasby" , Lasse Laursen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51>; from laursen@netgroup.dk on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:14:44PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net 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 No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some point. You can come close to this approach with manual methods, though. See the bootstrapping article for more info. Vinum wishlist: http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/wishlist.html Article about bootstrapping vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:14:44PM +0200, Lasse Laursen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently in the process of upgrading our Linux servers to FreeBSD. The > Linux servers uses software raid 1 on the boot/root partitions - is there a > way to do the same under FreeBSD 4.6? > > > Yours > -- > Lasse Laursen - Systems Developer > NetGroup A/S, St. Kongensgade 40H, DK-1264 København K, Denmark > Phone: +45 3370 1526 - Fax: +45 3313 0066 - Web: www.netgroup.dk > > - We don't surf the net, we make the waves. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message