From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 19: 9:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D65537B958 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [172.54.6.185] (203.108.215.170) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:39:05 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:08:59 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jesse reynolds Subject: vinum newbie configuration questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folx I'm looking at using Vinum on a new server I am currently building. As I have never used Vinum before, I thought running my setup by this list would be a prudent idea, to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid. So, I have 2 20Gb ATA disks in the new server. I want to do simple mirroring of all filesystems, /, /var, and /usr. I want to do mirroring pimarily for redundancy. Greg tells me that currently I can't mirror the root filesystem, so I'm looking at doing that manually. Swap question: how does vinum support swap? Is swap just another vinum volume? And should swap be mirrored? Or should I have two unmirrored swap areas, one on each disk? Also, does anyone have any tips on manually creating a backup root filesystem that could be manually booted from in case of hardware failure on the main root filesystem? I assume there would be issues with the devices and where things are mounted etc... cheers jesse -- -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au Email: jesse (at) va.com.au - http://virtual.artists To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message