From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 8:40:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.home.nl (mail3.home.nl [213.51.129.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407EF37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from ricin.localnet ([212.120.85.64]) by mail3.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010312164013.RTEL2686.mail3.home.nl@ricin.localnet>; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:40:13 +0000 From: Danny Pansters To: victor.dada@abnamro.com Subject: Re: RAID fileserver Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:42:31 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031217423101.22799@ricin.localnet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, please don't use an empty subject line, many people will just skip your=20 question because it's not clear what it's about. On Monday 12 March 2001 16:56, you wrote: > Are there any utilities to create software RAIDs? Can you install > FreeBSD on software RAIDs or do you make the RAID after installation? > Can I make a RAID from a 9 GB SCSI drive and 6 GB IDE drive as a Yes, FreeBSD has vinum for that. It's a kernel module and yes, it=20 requires an initial "normal" install. You cannot use a vinum volume to=20 boot off (YET), so your root partition might require special treatment=20 if resilience is what you want. For user data you can easily concat more than one physical disks=20 (raid-o). Vinum can also do raid-1 and raid-5. See www.vinumvm.org for more info =20 > single logical drive? If I want to make a file server that can > service Macs, Windows, Netware, and Unix systems what will have to be > installed? I'll leave this for someone else to comment on. For Windows, there's=20 samba, for Macs Appletalk? Best regards, =20 Danny Pansters http://www.ricin.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message