Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:37:59 -0500 From: "Stephen Hoover" <shooverfbn@442spot.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-question@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition Message-ID: <000f01c23d70$0209bfa0$6602a8c0@swbell.net> References: <023801c23cc0$61cbaa80$320210ac@dcicorp.com> <20020806010049.GP83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002f01c23cf3$ccc2c070$6602a8c0@swbell.net> <20020806025655.GH86771@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition > > Hmmm ok, I must be missing something here. Let's say I had /usr > > and /home mirrored. Now the root partition (that is the boot partition) > > is NOT mirrored and the first drive fails. (wiping out the FreeBSD > > config altogether.) > > What do you mean by "FreeBSD config"? > By that I mean all of / is gone - so essentially all of the FreeBSD install is gone - i.e. FreeBSD will not boot up and run upon failure of the first drive. It sounds like (from previous emails) that some vinum info is on the second drive and I should be able to regenerate the mirror set from the second drive. (After I have reinstalled/repartitioned FreeBSD correctly of course.) I will have to test this and see how it works exactly for myself. Thanks for the insight! Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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