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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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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
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