From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 09:21:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B021A16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:21:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C68343D39 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:21:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from carter.pixi.com ([206.127.224.102]:2374 "EHLO carter.pixi.com") by relay.pixi.com with ESMTP id S9242AbUKQJVf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:21:35 -1000 Received: from Internal (206.127.224.85) by carter with SMTP; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:19:48 GMT X-Titankey-e_id: Received: from vaiosr7k.ozland (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by koa.aloha.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id iAH9GgMs029975; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:16:46 -1000 (HST) From: Gary Dunn To: Chris Smith In-Reply-To: <1100631098.43464.10.camel@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk> References: <1100631098.43464.10.camel@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.13 (Preview Release) Date: 16 Nov 2004 23:10:22 -1000 Message-Id: <1100682627.2981.15.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> Mime-Version: 1.0 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:21:36 -0000 On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:51, Chris Smith wrote: [snip] > ... Can you boot off a striped volume and will it > benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a > concat? I don't think you can boot off a vinum partition, because you have to load vinum *after* the kernel is running. It usually loads early during the run through /etc/rc as the system goes multiuser, before visiting /etc/fstab with mount. Perhaps you have your root partition on another disk and just didn't mention it? Or is there a tricky way to do this that I am ignorant of? -- Gary Dunn knowtree@aloha.com Honolulu