On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Edward Elhauge wrote:
> OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on
> your root partition. By Murphy's Law it always seems to be root that gets
> screwed up. And that also causes the biggest problems because then you
> have to yank the system apart and find another host disk for booting.
The root Filesytems doesn't really change.
In general if you don't edit something in /etc or add accounts you can
even be happy with a readonly /.
I can't see any needs for mirrors beside that the host should keep running
in case of a disk failure. A simple backup of the small /etc is sufficient.
You don't have to find a new / disk if you already created one.
A mirror would allocate it anyway.
Nevertheless Greg showed me an df output with a mirrored / filesystem but
as I usually have stone old drives (90M drives are more than enough ;) for
/ I never tried it myself because I don't own 2 identic of them.
I don't know if it was plain vinum or some magic.
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