Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:29:01 -0700 From: "Bennett Hui" <bhui@mail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RAID 5 with Vinum Message-ID: <NDBBKCNFGLGFDJGFGEECKEOBCDAA.bhui@mail.com>
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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
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