Subject: Re: redundant disk support?
To: Tom Uban <uban@ubanproductions.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/23/2001 22:23:11
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:59:20PM -0500, Tom Uban wrote:
> So do I understand correctly that if I setup a 2 disk level 1 raid (one
> primary and one mirror), if the primary disk fails, I can then boot the
> mirror disk, provided that I have a non-mirrored root partition?

Even root can be mirrored. There's just an issue with /boot: installboot
can't install it on a mirrored set.
Just create a small partition which'll holds /boot and /netbsd; and let
the kernel use the RAID as root (raidctl -A root raid0)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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