From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 20:25:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB6B37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB66643E3B for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9E91381066; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:55:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:55:46 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 11 July 2002 at 20:09:02 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:15 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" wrote: > > JCN> No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is > JCN> on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some > > Er - have you seen man atacontrol in RELENG_4 lately ? I will > quote the most pertinent extract: > > Allthough the ATA driver allows for creating an ATA RAID on > disks on any controller, there are restrictions. It is only pos­ > sible to boot on an array if its either located on a "real" ATA > RAID controller like the Promise or Highpoint controllers, or if > the RAID declared is of RAID1 or SPAN type, in case of a SPAN > the partition to boot must reside on the first disk in the SPAN > > So the answer is - yes you can. The question was about software RAID. That's currently still not possible. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message