Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:04:17 -0500 From: "Ryan T. Dean" <rtdean@cytherianage.net> To: Steve Lee <maillist@blitzen.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID Message-ID: <20031031020417.GC494@magus.london.cytherianage.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301739540.22073-100000@neptune.blitzen.net> References: <1067562792.27240.1.camel@desolation.livid.de> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301739540.22073-100000@neptune.blitzen.net>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:40:40PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote: > So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails, > i can't have the other drive boot up ? >=20 > DAMN Vinum is capable of doing it, but its a little tricky. Take a look:=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html -Ryan T. Dean > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Scott Likens wrote: >=20 > > 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 ?? > > >=20 > > > also would it be able to mirror the root parition ? > > >=20 > > > Thanks. > > >=20 > > > any advice would be cool. > >=20 > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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 / > >=20 > > and yeah you can mirror /usr /var, etc with vinum (mdconfig) or you > > could use ccd if you wish. > >=20 > >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ocMhW6VZzwycJGURArYbAKCzY77xazSKgcnoNBZBDcS5A7mpAgCeIXeH pV5Ukc9jgFKhcCNWgoXdil0= =Vhag -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--
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