Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:18:37 +0100 From: Ollie Cook <ollie@uk.clara.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 with 2 IDE disks Message-ID: <20040625151837.GS54116@mutare.noc.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <006e01c45ac6$945f3b30$82026b83@marco> References: <006e01c45ac6$945f3b30$82026b83@marco>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:10:05PM +0100, Marco Gonçalves wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a server with two 80GB 7200RPM IDE hard drive disks. > Is it possible to have a software mirror RAID1 runing with FreeBSD? I mean a > full disk mirror (inlcuding system files and so on). So if i have a big > problem in one disk, everything runs the same, with minimum human > intervention... Is there a tool can wich i accomplish this? CCD? Vinum? > What would be the trade-offs in access disk speed, cpu load, etc... Vinum can do what you want. In particular if you want to use it as the root volume, there's a section in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html A general discussion of vinum is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html Ollie -- Oliver Cook Systems Administrator, Claranet UK ollie@uk.clara.net +44 20 7903 3065
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