Re: Software RAID

From: Ryan T. Dean (rtdean_at_cytherianage.net)
Date: 10/31/03

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    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:04:17 -0500
To: Steve Lee <maillist@blitzen.net>

    On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:40:40PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote:
    > So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails,
    > i can't have the other drive boot up ?
    >
    > DAMN

    Vinum is capable of doing it, but its a little tricky. Take a look:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html

                    -Ryan T. Dean

    > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Scott Likens wrote:
    >
    > > 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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