From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 23:31:35 2005 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 5DF4316A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 23:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ratchet.nebcorp.com (ratchet.nebcorp.com [205.217.153.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E748A43D7C for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 23:31:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: by ratchet.nebcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 1014) id B9037D989F; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:31:34 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: Jev Message-ID: <20050519233134.GB91325@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <428B6F96.1080500@ecad.org> <428D1816.4000100@toldme.com> <428D1AC9.4020604@ecad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428D1AC9.4020604@ecad.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X? 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 May 2005 23:31:35 -0000 On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:01:29PM -0700, Jev wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > > You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. > > Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement, > > and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of copying data from the > > known good disk. > > Hi danny, thanks for the reply. > > What do you use for RAID0? I'm aware of geom mirror, and raid3 classes... If you want it done for the boot system, it gets tricky. I've always done it with hardware. If you already have a way to boot, then gvinum, or some comination of gmirror and gstripe ought to work for you. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/