From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 10:22:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A4016A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teknowene@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A68343D49 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teknowene@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so120466wra for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:22:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole; b=COKhLLzYdYFSMaJfuoLVnYD/NU3pS3Zqrq/G5p8mIoFacJpklL0NNbGZBFkAFu4mps2eM39g9UfIgbTz96vAvk/c1ZUK38xVu8ztMapFJHqsiUHOTezFjT0omkL2pP10M3iU0XQMwEYNXadmIa3JYKcDuW90eM0ohxqH6oKJiTA= Received: by 10.54.148.2 with SMTP id v2mr8190755wrd; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from bklpc ( [207.102.22.204]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 10sm529595wrl.2006.01.31.02.22.30; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael" To: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:22:45 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c62650$4800f7e0$0201a8c0@bklpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcYmUEbz8pa61cRESdCzQ3kX7cZKew== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Software RAID 5 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, 31 Jan 2006 10:22:34 -0000 Hello there, I have a Dell Power Edge 2400 system with 4 X 18 GB SCSI Drives. I would like to use a software Raid 5 using FreeBSD 5.4. Any suggestions on how to go about doing it? I have read so many articles, it makes my head hurt. There are many options, for mirroring, but some are better than others, and some are out of date. Could someone please tell me what is best for FreeBSD 5.4, and if you have it, a How-to would be nice :-). Thanks in Advance Michael.