Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:23:49 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marcin Jessa" <yazzy@yazzy.org> To: <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk> Cc: <yazzy@yazzy.org>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RAIDframe Message-ID: <64826.80.232.16.66.1031617429.squirrel@www.yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <001101c2582c$5d6e24e0$82bf83d5@kandy> References: <65465.80.232.16.66.1031539613.squirrel@www.yazzy.org> <001101c2582c$5d6e24e0$82bf83d5@kandy>
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Hi. Vinum is propably not suitable for the purpose. It will make both my HD's fail when one of them is down causing a complete loss of data. I use Raid 1 becouse I only have 2 HD's that I can stripe and becouse RAID 5 would be kinda pointless with IDE drives. Jamie Heckford said: > I would recommend vinum for doing RAID, unless RAIDframe does > something vinum doesn't. > > How come your using RAID1 on your firewall out of curiosity... > > Jamie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcin Jessa" <yazzy@yazzy.org> > To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:46 AM > Subject: RAIDframe > > >> Hi. >> >> I am trying to set up my new firewall with 2 IDE disks and software >> RAID > 1. >> I was wondering if any of you ever succeeded to install and configure >> RAIDframe on FreeBSD.I have patched my source tree with wac's patch: >> http://www.carrel.org/RAIDframe and successfully recompiled both my >> base and my kernel.I have 2 40Gig IDE drives that I would like to >> RAID. I have > one slice on >> each of them and a few partitions.Then I would like to copy my system > which resides on a different HD and >> boot off the raided disks.Wac told me when he was avaliable that it's > possible to create both ufs >> and raid partitions on the same slice and that one needs a separate >> partition for the kernel and modules with ufs file sysem on it to be >> able to boot from the raided disks. The rest can be raided.I have no >> idea how > to make it work though. >> I'd be very grateful if any of you have an appopriate url or a piece >> of advice. >> Greets. >> YazzY >> >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >> > > > -- > ____________________________________________________ > Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > <http://www.newnet.co.uk/av/>; and believed to be clean -- Marcin M. Jessa Software developer/System Administrator Wireless Reading Systems ASA Skreddervn 9 N-1537 Moss Norway http://www.wrs.no Phone: +47 69 27 96 88 Cellular: +47 988 505 44 ----------- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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