From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 16:15:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00DEA150E6 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 5793 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1999 00:15:13 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 1999 00:15:13 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990324160317.00a00900@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:15:11 -0800 To: Greg Lehey , Jaye Mathisen From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring with FreeBSD Cc: Brad Lisoweski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990324161834.B425@lemis.com> References: <19990324151258.Y425@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:48 PM 3/23/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: >> Uh, vinum volumes can't be used for the root yet can they? > >Correct, that's still a restriction. There are ways around it, and >though they're ugly, they could work. The only file that really needs >to be in the root file system is the kernel, which isn't accessed >after startup, so you could mount another file system on top of it. > >Greg Hmm... The kernel _and_ the vinum KLD _and_ an rc to load vinum _and_ mount (with fstab) _and_ fsck if things ever go wrong. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message