On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 23:10:22 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > 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?
There's a tricky was to do this; apparently you're ignorant of it :-) It's described in the man page and at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf . Basically, it involves overlaying the Vinum subdisk with a BSD partition for booting. This means that the plex must be concat. Striped plexes have a layout that is incompatible with BSD partitions. To answer Chris's other question: no, I can't see any particular advantage. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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