Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:44:13 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> Cc: Lasse Laursen <laursen@netgroup.dk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020712164413.GO45527@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org>
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Hello, Jim C. Nasby! On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:10:15AM -0500, you wrote: > No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is > on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some > point. I don't think so, it seems that grog@FreeBSD.org forgot about vinum and don't want to fix even known bugs (you can look at cvs logs via cvsweb.freebsd.org). Sources haven't been updated for over 2 years (those that are newer are only cosmetic changes). Also, Greg don't accept any PRs on vinum, rejecting it with reason 'pilot error' or 'read here'. I hate vinum but I should use it (I have only IDE HDDs and no RAID, and I should run disk-time-consuming cvsupd). For now I'm testing in lab RAIDframe (http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/rf/) which is port from NetBSD's system software RAID. It looks much more stable than vinum, have very good fool-proof features (unlike vinum). Reasonable error and diagnostic messages, very simple configuration. With vinum I've already had 3 unrecoverable crashes (on mirroring, which is supposed to be 'safe-me' solution), and 5 kernel panics (yes, Greg, I have vinum compiled as kernel module, not compiled in). With RAIDframe I haven't experienced ANY problem at all for more than 2 month of extensive testing in lab. And yes, you can boot from RAIDframe device. I hope that GEOM will be avaliable in 5.0. > You can come close to this approach with manual methods, though. > See the bootstrapping article for more info. > > Vinum wishlist: > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/wishlist.html > > Article about bootstrapping vinum: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:14:44PM +0200, Lasse Laursen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently in the process of upgrading our Linux servers to FreeBSD. The > > Linux servers uses software raid 1 on the boot/root partitions - is there a > > way to do the same under FreeBSD 4.6? -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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