On 13-10-26 09:43 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> Does it also function that way with RAID 1 softraid volumes? > Yes.
That's great news! (I re-did a system with root-on-raid1 moments ago and lo - it "just works".) But... Even greater news would be if anyone other than a couple of developers knew about it. I suggest altering FAQ section 14.21.1 (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid) to show an example that includes root on softraid instead of wd0a as / and wd0m as RAID. I recently followed the most up-to-date guidance I could find on booting OpenBSD off softraid(4), and *everything* I found showed that I needed the kernel on a separate slice so boot(8) could find it. For that matter, boot(8), boot_amd64(8) and biosboot(8) all fail to mention the special behaviour of installboot(8) on softraid(4), so I have - AFAIK - no way of discovering that OpenBSD can boot directly off a softraid(4) root partition. Yeah, I know - submit a patch. I'm having trouble figuring out precisely what to say where. I'm hoping it's obvious to someone else... <whine>I know OpenBSD borrows useful concepts from Linux from time to time, but not keeping the manpages up to date isn't a "feature" I'd like to see brought over to the BSD world. One of the fundamentals of OpenBSD has historically been correct documentation.</whine> -- -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net
