Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:27:00 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net> Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support Message-ID: <20051006202700.GM564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20051006201616.GE26614@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20051006125233.754dd00e.josh@oplink.net> <86r7aywju7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051006200802.GL564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051006201616.GE26614@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:16:16PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:08:02PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: > +> Has anyone a recipe for a RAID1,0 bootstrap? :) > > Forget it. Everything which splits the data across disks will not work. > With software RAID you can operate on disks, slices, partitions, etc. > no limits here. I'd suggest creating small RAID1 on top of small > partitions for the root file system (or at least for /boot/ directory, > which is minimum). Well, I have RAID1 systems ... It seems reasonable to conclude that one could set up / as a RAID1 on the first pair of disks, and bootstrap far enough to include swap, /var, and /usr from a RAID10 stretched across a full-disk set. It just sounds somewhat tricky to set it all up, is all, so if someone has grokked out a recipe ... :) -danny
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