From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 12:41:46 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 53D5816A41F for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:41:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8547543D5E for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:41:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 20146 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 22:41:44 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (202.59.110.3) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 22:41:44 +1000 Message-ID: <42DF97F3.8000201@meijome.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:41:23 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <42DF4A96.1080305@meijome.net> <42DF8C31.5010106@meijome.net> <42DF92FE.9010101@dalegroup.net> In-Reply-To: <42DF92FE.9010101@dalegroup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM 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, 21 Jul 2005 12:41:46 -0000 Michael Dale wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> So, should I >> 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot >> 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? >> 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of >> /ad0s1[abef] ? >> > > When I installed GEOM for a RAID 1 setup I did the following: > > Install FreeBSD on ad0 > Boot CD and run fixit mode > Setup GEOM and change fstab to gm0 > > Linky: > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ Cheers Michael - that's a great bit of info. Do you know how to do RAID5 ? I read in http://www.essenz.com/support/lists/hackers/20040118/69.html about geom_raid, but it seems to be lost after that. The other alternative may be to setup a RAID1+0, but that shrinks my usable space, and I'm not sure how reliable/advisable it is to do in software. Thanks again, Beto