From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 20:37:54 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 3F6EA16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:37:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7C443D72 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:37:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4BKbpJF010334; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:37:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j4BKbou1010333; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:37:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200505112037.j4BKbou1010333@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:37:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4282668E.1040609@donnacha.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Mark Bucciarelli cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 20:37:54 -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. Might as well start with 5.4 from scratch. It was released a couple of days ago. ////jerry > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >