Date: 02 Jul 2002 22:10:28 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and RAID Message-ID: <87r8ilfqvv.fsf@pooh.int> In-Reply-To: <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPGECODIAA.maildrop@qwest.net> References: <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPGECODIAA.maildrop@qwest.net>
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At 2002-07-02T19:42:13Z, "Maildrop" <maildrop@qwest.net> writes: > 1. what hardware based IDE Raid card would be ideal for this setup that is > supported under FreeBSD 4.5 or later. Hardware RAID has a certain "coolness" factor, but FreeBSD's software RAID (vinum) is quite mature and production-ready. Are you sure that wouldn't suffice? At any rate, I'll base the rest of my answers on vinum. > 2. Can FreeBSD boot from a mirror-ed / drive? Not normally, but I believe that people have experimented with such setups. To my knowledge, though, that's not a supported setup. OTOH, you could easily use rsync to mirror the contents of a live / partition to another drive to make for quick recovery. > 3. Can I use RAID for 2 mirrors and still use "normal" IDE for /tmp, /log > and /cdrom drive? Using vinum, you can pick and choose your setup on a per-filesystem basis. Make /var a RAID-10 mirrored/striped filesystem, and make /tmp a growable `concat' volume that you can extend at a later date. > Let me know what ya guys think. I think you'll have fun. Enjoy it! -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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