From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 20:10:39 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 C328937B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE3F43E46 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:10:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g633ATje037212 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:10:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17PaXE-0000wK-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:10:28 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and RAID References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: 02 Jul 2002 22:10:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87r8ilfqvv.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 At 2002-07-02T19:42:13Z, "Maildrop" 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