Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:01:31 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu> To: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Raid motherboard Message-ID: <44638A0B.9050404@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060511171834.GA77251@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <4463055F.1080404@freemail.hu> <61d60b9d0605110652i5e226712i9660a44093919dcd@mail.gmail.com> <446356DA.2070007@freemail.hu> <20060511171834.GA77251@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
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> >> Unfortunately, I do not have the >> hardware yet, so I cannot try this. A real SCSI RAID controller would be >> too expensive for me. If I cannot install the whole system on the >> mirrored set, then probably it is better to use gvinum, because it >> allows me to buy a cheaper motherboard and use different hard drives. >> However, gvinum also has disadvantages (cannot mirror the root fs, or it >> is too difficult and I'm not familiar with vinum...) >> > > Correct, gvinum has disadvantages, but mirroring the root FS is actually > pretty easy: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > > gvinum doesn't have all the functionality of the original vinum (yet). But > if you're just using RAID-1 (mirroring), why not use gmirror(8)? From my > observations, gmirror performs better than hardware mirroring, in general. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html Hmm, this looks good. I only read the vinum man page, I did not know about gmirror. :-) I'm going to try this first, because it is easier than gvinum and it Thank you! Bottom line: I think I need to read the man pages of geom,vinum and gmirror several times before I come back again. :-) Best, Laszlo
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