Re: All partitions on Software RAID 1

2010-01-21 Thread B Da Bahia
Holland n...@holland-consulting.netwrote: B Da Bahia wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie to OpenBSD, and I'm trying to install a new system with all partitions (/, et al) on a software RAID 1 discipline. From the FAQs, I see that you don't recommend using RAIDframe + ccd for new installs

All partitions on Software RAID 1

2010-01-20 Thread B Da Bahia
Hello, I'm a newbie to OpenBSD, and I'm trying to install a new system with all partitions (/, et al) on a software RAID 1 discipline. From the FAQs, I see that you don't recommend using RAIDframe + ccd for new installs. But in the softraid manpage, you say that There is no boot support at

Re: All partitions on Software RAID 1

2010-01-20 Thread B Da Bahia
Thanks Joachim. Will do. There are two solutions: you can go with hardware RAID, which can be sufficiently transparent to make boot(8) work, or you can use the altroot mechanism, which makes a nightly copy of your root disk to another partition (which should suffice - your root device