Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:40:40 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lee <maillist@blitzen.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301739540.22073-100000@neptune.blitzen.net> In-Reply-To: <1067562792.27240.1.camel@desolation.livid.de>
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So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails, i can't have the other drive boot up ? DAMN 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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