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From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
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Cc: Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:01:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 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.

Has anyone a recipe for a RAID1,0 bootstrap? :)

-danny