From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 06:49:11 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 0A08837B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta3.adelphia.net (mta3.adelphia.net [64.8.50.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F11D43F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.161.217]) by mta3.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030619134909.VWYW1347.mta3.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF1BF55.2080203@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:49:09 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Moti Levy References: <03a101c33667$a9379770$0201010a@bvg6> In-Reply-To: <03a101c33667$a9379770$0201010a@bvg6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:49:11 -0000 Moti Levy wrote: > 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've done this. Works very well. > 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 ? Yes. > is there a solution out there ? You can use all four drives in your Vinum array. There used to be a restriction that the root partition could not be part of the Vinum array, but that's no longer the case, see the Vinum section of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html And specifically this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com