From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 03:37:30 2003 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 C513316A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6F843FF9 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h8LAb6JK047901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:37:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h8LAb6Xv047900; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:37:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:37:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Chris Hastie Message-ID: <20030921103706.GA47741@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Chris Hastie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5IdVrgCNpXb$EwLw@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5IdVrgCNpXb$EwLw@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID-1 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: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:37:30 -0000 --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote: > I'm looking at building a FreeBSD server with two identical 60GB hard=20 > drives configured with software RAID-1. What would be the best way to=20 > set about this? Vinum or RaidFrame (which it appears from release notes= =20 > / errata doesn't work on 5.1) or something else? And what is a sensible= =20 > procedure to get something like this working on a fresh install? The Handbook is your friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.ht= ml Vinum is considerably more stable under FreeBSD than RaidFrame -- I'm not even sure that the people porting RaidFrame are ready to have people use it on anything other than development systems yet. Since, as you say, it's not supported on RELENG_5_1, then the only place you'ld have a hope of finding it is HEAD, and that's just too grisly to contemplate running a proper server system on. In fact, unless your hardware requires you to run 5.x, I'd strongly recommend that you stick with 4.8-RELEASE (or 4.9-RELEASE due out in the next few weeks). Using Vinum boot drives under 4.x is supported, but not quite so well integrated into the boot code as on 5.x. However, all it requires are a few extra twiddles in /boot/loader.conf as shown at the end of the referenced Handbook section. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/bX9SdtESqEQa7a0RAmzLAJwMA35V9WC+7NHUAowHJyD9UMHHtwCgguvI xOzLWTYpDl09pdXGu/kzZac= =YkD/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5--