Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
FreeBSD team, I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? I tried to find in documentation an could not find an answer. Thanks, Rodrigo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
From: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager FreeBSD team, I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? I tried to find in documentation an could not find an answer. Did you try the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum .html Greg Lehey of the FreeBSD core team does a great job with vinum. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
Kevin, I read this document but I still with doubt if is possible during the installation of FreeBSD use LVM. The installation document (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.htm l) only makes reference for a static partitioning. Does anyone knows if is possible, during the installation, use LVM to create root partition? Thanks, Rodrigo. -Original Message- From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:kdk;daleco.biz] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:37 PM To: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager From: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager FreeBSD team, I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? I tried to find in documentation an could not find an answer. Did you try the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum .html Greg Lehey of the FreeBSD core team does a great job with vinum. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
And, to correct/augment my informationGreg WROTE Vinum KDK - Original Message - From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager From: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager FreeBSD team, I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? I tried to find in documentation an could not find an answer. Did you try the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum .html Greg Lehey of the FreeBSD core team does a great job with vinum. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
Hi! I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right now, so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not possible to have root partition on vinum volume, at least in FreeBSD 4.x. It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume. Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
At 9:08 PM on Tuesday 12 November 2002, Toomas Aas wrote: It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume. Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) That's true, but there's an article Bootstrapping Vinum, which describes how to make the best of the situation, though. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ -- David Siebörger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
But it could be a kernel compile option, such as NetBSD's and OpenBSD's RAIDFrame. I set up a server with NetBSD with the root partition on RAID the other day - works fine. Only problem is that I had to have the kernel in a non-RAID partition. In the case of vinum, I suppose one would have to have the kernel and modules on a non-RAID partition. That is, assumming Mr. Lehey add support for this. :-) Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right now, so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not possible to have root partition on vinum volume, at least in FreeBSD 4.x. It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume. Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right now, Correct. It was 3 am here. so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not possible to have root partition on vinum volume, at least in FreeBSD 4.x. Also correct. It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume. Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) In fact, there are tricks to work around this. I had the root file system on a Vinum volume nearly three years ago, but there were objections to the tricks I was using. I'm still planning to update things. It's not very much work, but I haven't found the time yet. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
