From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 15:31:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 3EB1416A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2AE43D5C for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897B669A7B; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:31:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4086F59F.7080302@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:28:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ste@smxy.org References: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> In-Reply-To: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:31:38 -0000 Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > A client has hired me to do some work, part of which is replacing Red > Hat 9, which is end-of-lifed at the end of this month. I'd convinced him > to let me install FreeBSD, right up until I told him that - to my > knowledge - you cannot trivially set up software raid on FreeBSD, during > install, as you can with Red Hat Linux. > > I'm supposed to build the new server tomorrow. *Is* there any way I can > set up software raid of two ide disks, during install, and for all > partitions? This is just to mirror the system disk, so that we can avoid > downtime, and going to backups in case of a disk failure. If it can be > done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what > it is, but nothing about it. I believe this is still valid: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com