From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 17: 8:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B8737B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-200.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.200]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA24800; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:08:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020104190800.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 19:08:00 -0600 To: "ScaryG" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <3C35DA7B.9672.B80563@localhost> References: <3.0.5.32.20020104152824.01946370@mail.sage-american.com> 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 Yikes!! I see what you mean by Vinum... rather cryptic at first look... has anyone on the list set up the mirror of 2 identical hard disks... and how well does it work? What are the pitfalls and what would be the command syntax plus options to start the mirror config of ad0 to ad1..?? At 04:38 PM 1.4.2002 -0500, ScaryG wrote: > >On 4 Jan 2002 at 15:28, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > >> Am building a new box that will contain two identical hard disks. Plan >> to install FreeBSD on the first hard disk and would like to mirror to >> the second HD. >> >> I know this has been covered somewhere, but I have searched through >> the archives and don't see anything about mirroring.... what is the >> best way to do this..??? Thanks! > > Vinum comes to mind, but when I looked at it about 2 years ago I >found it rather puzzling. > > We bought a Mylex RAID card instead (since we had SCSI drives) and >just setup the card with the two drives at RAID1 and voila. Seemed >much easier than figuring out Vinum. > > For IDE I would suggest you read up on Vinum. Documentation is >likely better today and Greg Lehey (sp?) who looks after Vinum can be >found on these lists as well. > >gf >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Gerry Freymann - Senior Systems Manager >eagle.ca Internet Services www.eagle.ca >Voice: 905-373-9313 Fax: 905-373-1801 >http://www.eagle.ca/support >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message