From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 19:28:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-3.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-44.outblaze.com [205.158.62.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FCA37B417 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-105.outblaze.com [205.158.62.105]) by mta1-3.us4.outblaze.com (8.11.6/8.11.6-srs) with SMTP id g2D3SgL17768 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:28:42 GMT Received: (qmail 30443 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Mar 2002 03:28:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20020313032837.30442.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [63.214.215.90] by ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com with http for jud@operamail.com; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:28:37 +0800 From: "Jud " To: , Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:28:37 +0800 Subject: Booting from RAID? (was Re: Using VINUM to do RAID-1 disk mirroring) X-Originating-Ip: 63.214.215.90 X-Originating-Server: ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:19:54 +1030 To: Jason Borkowsky Subject: Re: Using VINUM to do RAID-1 disk mirroring [snip] > Vinum doesn't currently support root, so yes, you'll need a separate > boot drive with the root file system. > > Greg I'm about to set up two ATA-100 hard drives as a RAID-0 array. An ATA-66 drive will remain in the system. I'd prefer booting from whichever was fastest, and assume this would be the RAID array. Is there a disadvantage/impediment to booting from a RAID array (other than possible loss of data - there's nothing on any of these drives I can't afford to lose, so it would be a PITA but not a disaster), or is there a different reason why Vinum doesn't support root? Jud -- _______________________________________________ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message