Re: Software RAID1 with 2 IDE disks

From: Ollie Cook (ollie_at_uk.clara.net)
Date: 06/25/04

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    On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:10:05PM +0100, Marco Gonçalves wrote:
    > Hi list!
    >
    > I have a server with two 80GB 7200RPM IDE hard drive disks.
    > Is it possible to have a software mirror RAID1 runing with FreeBSD? I mean a
    > full disk mirror (inlcuding system files and so on). So if i have a big
    > problem in one disk, everything runs the same, with minimum human
    > intervention... Is there a tool can wich i accomplish this? CCD? Vinum?
    > What would be the trade-offs in access disk speed, cpu load, etc...

    Vinum can do what you want. In particular if you want to use it as the root
    volume, there's a section in the handbook:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html

    A general discussion of vinum is here:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html

    Ollie

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