From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 20:31:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com (mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com [24.2.10.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE3F37B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cr816685a ([24.113.95.72]) by mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001014033144.CCOC8768.mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com@cr816685a> for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:31:44 -0700 From: "Bennett Hui" To: Subject: RAID 5 with Vinum Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:29:01 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm thinking about setting up a RAID 5 system with Vinum using 4 IDE HDDs. I've looked through the man pages on vinumvm.org, but I still have one preliminary question: when installing FreeBSD with the intention of setting up RAID 5 using Vinum on 4 hard drives, do I install the whole OS on one hard drive and then use Vinum to arrange the file system on the remaining 3 hard drives, or do I install the OS on all 4 hard drives (assign space that fills up all 4 drives) and use Vinum to work out the RAID 5 itself afterwards? One other question about Vinum I have: If I have the FreeBSD OS on 2 hard drives without any RAID/Vinum setup and then decide to add two more hard drives and setup RAID 5, is this something that Vinum can easily do, or is it easier to reformat all 4 drives and start from scratch? If Vinum can do this "on the fly," what Vinum commands/steps would I use to do it? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message