From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 14:53:58 2002 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 6487737B401 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6308643E13 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g62Lri4P002584; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:53:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3D2220EB.2060009@rambo.simx.org> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:53:47 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maildrop , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and RAID References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maildrop wrote: >Question in regards to both RAID and FreeBSD. Basically I am building a >small file server and want to make sure that there is some reailability to >it (this isn't production, but for my home media server). > >Right now I have 6 "clean" working IDE drivers, 1 IDE CDROM, 2 are 80 Gig >(same model) and 2 are 20 Gig (same model). 1 2 gig drive, and 1 4 gig >drive. > >What I want to do is mirror the 2 20 gigs drives as root, /usr, etc then >mirror the 80 gig drives for data purposes and use the 2 gig drive as /tmp >(doesn't matter if the drive dies) and the 4 gig drive as /log. > >This way if one of the 20 gig drives or one of the 80 gig drives just dies, >I can just stuff a new drive in there and don't have to rebuild everything. >I have tape backups, but rebuilding from tape is a long boring process.... > >So my questions are > >1. what hardware based IDE Raid card would be ideal for this setup that is >supported under FreeBSD 4.5 or later. > I have used both Promise and HighPoint IDE RAID under FreeBSD, and they have both worked fine. >2. Can FreeBSD boot from a mirror-ed / drive? > As long as its hardware and not Vinum, and the hardware in question is supported, it should not be a problem. >3. Can I use RAID for 2 mirrors and still use "normal" IDE for /tmp, /log >and /cdrom drive? > Yes. Most motherboards that have onboard IDE RAID usually has one or two "normal" ide channels as well. If you buy a PCI hardware RAID controller you can still use the controllers on the motherboard to hold the other drives and/or cd's. >Let me know what ya guys think. > >Thanks, >Bud > > > -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message