From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 25 15:18:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4573D16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:18:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mutare.noc.clara.net (mutare.noc.clara.net [195.8.70.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074EE43D54 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:18:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ollie@mutare.noc.clara.net) Received: from ollie by mutare.noc.clara.net with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BdsTN-000POz-Ea for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:18:37 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:18:37 +0100 From: Ollie Cook To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040625151837.GS54116@mutare.noc.clara.net> References: <006e01c45ac6$945f3b30$82026b83@marco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <006e01c45ac6$945f3b30$82026b83@marco> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386 X-NCC-RegID: uk.claranet Sender: Ollie Cook Subject: Re: Software RAID1 with 2 IDE disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:18:54 -0000 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