From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 16:20:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E82937B40E; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A069C651F; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:18:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f85NIwn78557; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:18:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:18:58 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Darryl Okahata , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010905181858.W63459@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net References: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010905084245.H85816@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net 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 Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I had /usr on a vinum-controlled partition, and upgrading FreeBSD > > via CDs was a royal pain. I basically had to do the upgrade to > > the root drive (moving /usr out of the way, rebuild the kernel > > with vinum, reboot, and then copy/move the contents of /usr into > > the vinum-controlled /usr -- bleah). > > > > [ Today, I should be able to kldload vinum, but I don't think I can do > > this at install time from the CDROM, and so I'd still have to play > > games with /usr. ] > > Yes, currently installing on Vinum is a pain. But vinum(8) loads the > kld automatically, and I suspect that you should be able to load it > during the installation process. The problem is that sysinstall > doesn't know about Vinum. > On the same vein, is booting off of vinum in the works yet? I know it's been looked into... It seems that would be one of the biggest advantages that hardware raid has over vinum. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message