From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 3 16: 2:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A1A37B426 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02594; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:02:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13442; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:02:20 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200109032302.JAA13442@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: RAID5 In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 03 Sep 2001 14:25:59 -0400. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:02:19 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Or you could use vinum(8) and use whatever IDE controller you > have, and whatever RAID configuration that you want. At the current time, vinum can't be used for the root partition, so if you really need mirrored root, you need a hardware solution. For most systems the root partition very rarely changs, so a solution of vinum for everything else and a cron job to dd the root partition to its "mirror" might be acceptable. This is what we do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message