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To: Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net>
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Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support
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Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net> writes:
> I am sorry if this is covered in areas I was unable to view.  But,
> from what it looks like GEOM is limited to 0/1 raid levels.
> Basically, what I am needing is a raid5 configuration from
> bootstrap.

You can't boot from a RAID 5 volume without hardware support.

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