From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 15:20:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8836F14CE7 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id AAA21956 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:18:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 8B08F87B6; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:09:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:09:55 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? Message-ID: <19990408000955.D8314@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Hackers References: <19990407085435.M2142@lemis.com> <19990407080113.A4122@keltia.freenix.fr> <19990407155835.M2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990407155835.M2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 03:58:35PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5173 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > Right, most System Vs I know with this method call it /stand. But > that name is taken :-) On Tandem, the boot file system is (wait for > it) bfs. It's the most stupid file system I've seen yet, but it makes > it easier for the bootstrap to find the kernel. On SVR4 (at least some of the older 4.0 ones) used bfs as the filesystem used for /stand. It is much simplier than UFS (contiguous allocation and all that) and fits in the boot blocks. > Well, you *could* tell me which parts are cool and why. Then you'd > have at least a hope of getting it. It is something that for some parts is akind to vinum (mirror, raid and all) with resizing of partitions (both VxfS and HFS). The LVM module from AIX is even better because you don't need to unmount the filesystem before (HP does it with an extra package called OnlineJFS). You have Physical Volumes, grouped into Volume Groups, each Volume Group is divided into Logical Volumes and a LV can contain a filesystem. A given filesystem is extendable within a LV and you can enlarge a LV. Probably near what Veritas' stuff does. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message