From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 14:55:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prime.gushi.org (prime.gushi.org [208.23.118.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0280137B404 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by prime.gushi.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA54462 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:59:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:59:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hard Drive Mirroring. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've seen a lot of info on this list about mirroring hard drives, most of which is answered with "man vinum". I want to mirror two hard drives so that if one fails, the other will boot. And while I'm honestly expecting that this could be done with vinum, I don't think I need it, as the data on the drives (other than logfiles) will br pretty static. (this is for a router) So here's the questions of the day: 1. Is there some boot manager that will recognize failed drives and roll over to the next? 2. Does vinum (or is it the loader) support booting directly to a vinum partition? 3. Can anyone think of a better way to do this (I've thought about making boot floppies and I've also considered making a boot cdrom, although I have no idea how I would do this, help would be appreciated) Thanks, Dan Mahoney -- "And, a special guest, from the future, miss Ria Pischell. Miss Pischell, as you all know, is the inventor of the Statiophonic Oxygenetic Amplifiagraphaphonadelaverberator, and it's pretty hard to imagine life without one of those. -Rufus, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message