Re: Software RAID

From: Scott Likens (damm_at_fpsn.net)
Date: 10/31/03

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    To: Steve Lee <maillist@blitzen.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:13:12 -0800

    On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:22, Steve Lee wrote:
    > Does FreeBSD support Software RAID ?
    > if so, what can it do ?
    > RAID 0, 1, 5 ??
    >
    > also would it be able to mirror the root parition ?
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > any advice would be cool.

    http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

    There's always good stuff in there about everything, as far as raid, 0,
    1, 5, I imagine 0+1, 10, prolly the only thing it lacks is JBOD.

    But as far as your 'root' partition that I don't think so, mirroring the
    root partition usually isn't worth it anywho. Since the root partition
    is typically 250megs for /

    and yeah you can mirror /usr /var, etc with vinum (mdconfig) or you
    could use ccd if you wish.

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