From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 17:03:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9916106564A for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:03:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E668FC1D for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:03:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 31286012 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:03:13 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:03:09 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:03:08 -0500 Thread-Topic: How customized can an mfsroot be? Thread-Index: AcrU4d2wks1YKrZQRt6bugO/P/nNNg== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:03:15 -0000 We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porti= ng to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the = restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For exa= mple, in our USB disk procedure, we create partitions using gpart and set u= p mirroring for the OS partitions. We even recognize 3Ware controllers and = automatically create logical RAID sets from the available drives. In some e= arlier work I did with a pxe boot server a couple of years ago, I know that= I could not setup mirrors via sysinstall and I assume that hasn't changed = in FreeBSD 8. Is it possible to customize the mfsroot environment to run a = larger variety of commands to allow us to duplicate the cloning process we = use with USB boot sticks or is this project likely not doable?