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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.