Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:18:58 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM %2B0930 References: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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. -- 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
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