From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 18:04:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E267316A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C4F43FD7 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rtdean-dated-1068429861.dc6548@cytherianage.net) Received: from magus.london.cytherianage.net ([194.216.254.117]) by out005.verizon.netESMTP <20031031020422.JJLT1313.out005.verizon.net@magus.london.cytherianage.net> for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:04:22 -0600 Received: (qmail 30648 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2003 02:04:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO magus.london.cytherianage.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Oct 2003 02:04:21 -0000 Received: by magus.london.cytherianage.net (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:04:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:04:17 -0500 To: Steve Lee Message-ID: <20031031020417.GC494@magus.london.cytherianage.net> References: <1067562792.27240.1.camel@desolation.livid.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: "Ryan T. Dean" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.86 (Venetian Way) X-PGP-Key: http://www.cytherianage.net/~rtdean/pubkey.asc X-Primary-Address: rtdean@cytherianage.net X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [194.216.254.117] at Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:04:22 -0600 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Ryan T. Dean" List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:04:25 -0000 --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--