From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 15:46:22 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 613D916A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1FF43D31 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541412BD83 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:46:18 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8EC735122D; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:16:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:16:16 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20040421224616.GC76172@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> <4086F59F.7080302@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pqZtgxSH0iQu6R78" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4086F59F.7080302@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: ste@smxy.org 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 22:46:22 -0000 --pqZtgxSH0iQu6R78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 18:28:47 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > 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 I don't see anything incorrect in it. You may find the description at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf easier to understand. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --pqZtgxSH0iQu6R78 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhvm4IubykFB6QiMRAmw1AKCYpuJZ+axlIXEPzjEwmDproce48gCgpYUr jsOgoITMahJIEpSQuGYY8qQ= =n9FC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pqZtgxSH0iQu6R78--