From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 18: 1:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A84D14C35; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA17166; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:31:05 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA09218; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:31:04 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990306123104.J490@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:31:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: tim@scratch.demon.co.uk, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vinum References: <199903022254.WAA98152@franklin.matlink> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903022254.WAA98152@franklin.matlink>; from tim@scratch.demon.co.uk on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:54:06PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved from -current to -questions] On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 22:54:06 +0000, tim@scratch.demon.co.uk wrote: > Help.. > ======= FreeBSD-CURRENT is designed for discussions about (wait for it) FreeBSD-CURRENT. It is not an appropriate forum for this question. You've already sent a (different) question on this subject to -questions. That's the correct place, so I'm sending it back there. > vinum - is this volume management such like vold in solaris ? I believe it has a similar function. There are other volds which apparently do different things. > am I correct in assuming that the initial boot device cannot be a part > of a vinum volume ? Currently. It's on the wish list, and will get done. > If this is the case then I would need my vinum information on the > initial disk, and can move information from one disk to another, create > a vinum disk and move the information back again ? I'm not quite sure what you mean here. In any case, it depends on your requirements. You can create a file system with just about everything from the root file system except the kernel, and mount that on a Vinum volume. That would be easier than what you propose, and since the kernel file isn't needed too much after booting, it would give you a pretty good resilience. > Is it advantageous to be running vinum ? There are advantages to running vinum, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Only you can determine whether it's right for you. > Is there any documentation other than the manpages on this, i.e > html. ? Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message