On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 01:26:43PM +0000, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Janne Johansson <jj <at> it.su.se> writes: > > > Isn't that the case with all fstab entries right now? > > > > You get the computer to list some drive before other disks, raid or no > > raid, and fstab breaks on you. > > No, you didn't read it carefully enough. fstab breaks on me when I shove in a > drive 'before', true. But when I add a 'higher' one, everything is fine. > Believe > me, I have a bunch. softraid is different, because ANY added physical drive > will > increase the count, and push the softraid drive one notch nigher.
I have tried a hackish solution (my goal was to encrypt as much as possible of an USB drive to create a standalone encrypted OpenBSD USB disk) in which I used a separate partition for /etc (on encrypted softraid), a new /etc/rc on the root partition that located the softraid drive, mounted /etc read-write, edited /etc/fstab to correct boot drive and softraid drive, and then called the real /etc/rc. It is ugly but working. What was hairy was to do the job using only / (/bin, /sbin). Your problem could be solved with a similar solution. Until OpenBSD can mount using (for example) disklabels. > > Uwe -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
