From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 20:03:58 2005 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 B7E8516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:03:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7109D43D73 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:03:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d@donnacha.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5B1C8D92B; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:03:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: TJzPhDuPYl9cLhzfoQ4TUzg1wm2pYe0s2gwyQv4MKivy 1115841835 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (82-41-213-217.cable.ubr12.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.213.217]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A884B84; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4282668E.1040609@donnacha.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:09:50 +0100 From: freebsd.org@donnacha.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42822285.9050402@donnacha.com> <42823AB1.3050704@mac.com> <42824021.9000108@donnacha.com> <42824476.4090404@mac.com> <42825F50.4040007@donnacha.com> <428263D5.6010609@gaiahost.coop> In-Reply-To: <428263D5.6010609@gaiahost.coop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Mark Bucciarelli Subject: Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. 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, 11 May 2005 20:03:58 -0000 Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first > post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror. It uses the > new GEOM code (like gvinum) but gmirror has a man page and is feature > complete. As of 5.3, gvinum did not have all the commands implemented > (not sure about it in 5.4). > > If you are not using 5.x then sorry for missing the beginning of the > thread. No, it will be 5.3 sure enough, that's their standard install I think, upgrading to 5.4 will be one of my first tasks. Will definitely check out gmirror and any other options, got to make this as idiot-proof as possible because, sadly, I'm an idiot. Thanks, Donnacha