graid5 or gvinums - bootable?

Arne Wörner arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 12 04:30:54 UTC 2007


--- Howard Goldstein <hg at queue.to> wrote:
> Q: Should a graid5 or gvinum provider be expected to be bootable,
> assuming the prover's partition table has an active bootable partition
> containing a properly bsdlabeled 'a' slice with the /boot subdirectories
> in it (i.e., all of the stuff you normally need in an ordinary, non-geom
>  system to have a bootable slice)?
> 
Wont work with graid5...
I use a RAID1 (graid5 in 2-disk-mode) for /boot... :-)

I dont know, if gvinum can do that... But I doubt it...

-Arne


       
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