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Date:      Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:15:12 +0200
From:      jakob@ostenfeld.dk
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Vinum boot support
Message-ID:  <19990803231512.A30831@ostenfeld.dk>

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Hi BSD'ers !

I'm in need of some help or suggestions regarding a setup
with FreeBSD on a machine with two IDE disks.

I want to run RAID-1 on those disks, and I'm pretty sure I
can do that with Vinum. However, it's not clear to me whether
I can make the system boot on the logical RAID-1 volume.

Is it possible ?   How ?

The Vinum docs say it's not recommended to have Vinum directly
in the kernel (it should instead be a loadable module). Now, I
would expect that this means that I cannot boot on a Vinum 
volume.  Why isn't it recommended ?


I have a final question with which I do not intend to start
a flame war...  How can I expect FreeBSD disk I/O performance
to compare to Linux disk I/O performance ?  Especially with
regards to stat() and fsync() ?  (I will be running a mail-server
with ./Maildir/ support)

Thank you for your time, 

................................................................
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:.........................: putrid forms of man                :
:   Jakob Østergaard      : See him rise and claim the earth,  :
:        OZ9ABN           : his downfall is at hand.           :
:.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:


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