From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 15:47:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E1816A425 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:47:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F16A43D7E for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:46:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper [212.12.50.230]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jBTFkXRs000681; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:46:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9/Submit) id jBTFkXrH000680; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:46:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:46:33 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: Joe Auty Message-ID: <20051229104633.A581@cons.org> References: <43B3F341.5030906@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from joe@netmusician.org on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:12:02AM -0500 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:47:07 -0000 Joe Auty wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:12:02AM -0500: > Some great advice here! > > What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard > disk space I have available? This is just my personal backup machine > and will consist of two drives, so I don't need kick ass performance, > and I don't need my files mirrored. I take it that striping is what I > need to look at? RAID-0? Can I setup striping without reformatting, > or only mirroring? Why do you want to RAID in first place then? RAID-0 is the only option that doesn't lose space, but it increases your risk for the benefit of performance. Since you don't need performance there is no point in taking the risk, much less the bootstrapping hassle. You cannot convert existing filesystems to raid without first moving the data somewhere. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/