From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 02:12:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACADA1065678 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:12:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F4F8FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:12:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.12]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3B001XR25CBH00@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3B00IG925CO0A0@pd3mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3B005N025BRD20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A8FB839 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:12:46 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <20080629145657.05b7a462@gom.home> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080630191246.4e128acf@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080629145657.05b7a462@gom.home> Subject: Re: second pre-emptive raid: stripes and the os X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:12:48 -0000 On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:56:57 -0700 prad wrote: > based on the excellent ideas from the first pre-emptive raid thread we > have been considering raid1+0 or raid5 for our server > our server just arrived today!! and there was an unexpected surprise in it - a raid card mylex extreme raid2000 which worked right away. does anyone know about the quality of this card? so we will be using that instead of software raid, though i still would like to know how you setup a stripe and keep the os on it. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's