From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 20:16:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD95A16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:16:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DAF43D46 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:16:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B010350BC1; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:16:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dlc37.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.24.32.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EC150B99; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:16:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:16:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Danny Howard Message-ID: <20051006201616.GE26614@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20051006125233.754dd00e.josh@oplink.net> <86r7aywju7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051006200802.GL564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TD8GDToEDw0WLGOL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051006200802.GL564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng devel (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Joshua Bell Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:16:25 -0000 --TD8GDToEDw0WLGOL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:08:02PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: +> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:01:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: +> > Joshua Bell writes: +> > > I am sorry if this is covered in areas I was unable to view. But, +> > > from what it looks like GEOM is limited to 0/1 raid levels. +> > > Basically, what I am needing is a raid5 configuration from +> > > bootstrap. +> >=20 +> > You can't boot from a RAID 5 volume without hardware support. +>=20 +> Has anyone a recipe for a RAID1,0 bootstrap? :) Forget it. Everything which splits the data across disks will not work. With software RAID you can operate on disks, slices, partitions, etc. no limits here. I'd suggest creating small RAID1 on top of small partitions for the root file system (or at least for /boot/ directory, which is minimum). --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --TD8GDToEDw0WLGOL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDRYYQForvXbEpPzQRAjSCAKC0prLt1CANA/cCGuAbZKAvW3whwQCfYapT EQRD8vd2SDB1GLqavYa1sqE= =hCJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TD8GDToEDw0WLGOL--