At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or > will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive?
I end up with a single copy of '/'. However, I partition (both,all) drives identically, so that each has a 200MB-or-so slice at the beginning. I use rsync from a cron job to make backups of '/' to the starting slice of each drive. The reasons I do this are that: 1) Any old FreeBSD boot floppy/CD can read the "mirrors" of '/' in the event that the root drive dies, regardless of the state of vinum. Makes disaster recovery that much easier. 2) You get a little bit of versioning for free. Accidentally overwrite /etc/master.passwd with mergemaster? Just grab the copy from /rootbackup. >> Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate? > I've read a bit of a chapter from the 4th edition of The Complete FreeBSD: > <http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf> (or, as text > <http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.txt>). It suggests to install the > swap-partition first on the drive, setup a slice for vinum to cover the > entire drive and then run bsdlabel and change the offset and size for the > swap and vinum partitions. Weird. I've never bothered with any of that. I always just call "create" with: sd length 0 drive myDrive1 and let vinum calculate the correct sizes. -- Kirk Strauser
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