Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:13:12 -0800 From: Scott Likens <damm@fpsn.net> To: Steve Lee <maillist@blitzen.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID Message-ID: <1067562792.27240.1.camel@desolation.livid.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301621190.19860-100000@neptune.blitzen.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301621190.19860-100000@neptune.blitzen.net>
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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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