From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 06:33:04 2003 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 0FC0037B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv.flncs.com (srv.flncs.com [12.27.148.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7195B43FAF for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moti@flncs.com) Received: from bvg6 (bvg [68.17.19.66]) by srv.flncs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559264BC61 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:53:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <03a101c33667$a9379770$0201010a@bvg6> From: "Moti Levy" To: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:33:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: FreeBSD - software raid 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: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:33:04 -0000 Hi, before I do the unthinkable and use Linux for a server , I ask for your help. I have a set of 4 IDE drives . I need to build a file server that'll run samba/nfs I want to use all 4 drives as a raid 5 array and use the combined space for storage. is there a way to do it with FreeBSD ? I looked at ccd and vinum but as far as my understanding goes , I cant use it during setup but rather build the system first and than use ccd/vinum on all BUT the system disk . am I wrong ? is there a solution out there ? thanks moti