Software RAID

[Steve Lee]

So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails,
i can't have the other drive boot up ?

DAMN


On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Scott Likens wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:22, Steve Lee wrote:
> > Does FreeBSD support Software RAID ?
> > if so, what can it do ?
> > RAID 0, 1, 5 ??
> > 
> > also would it be able to mirror the root parition ?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > any advice would be cool.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/handbook
> 
> There's always good stuff in there about everything, as far as raid, 0,
> 1, 5, I imagine 0+1, 10, prolly the only thing it lacks is JBOD.
> 
> But as far as your 'root' partition that I don't think so, mirroring the
> root partition usually isn't worth it anywho.  Since the root partition
> is typically 250megs for /
> 
> and yeah you can mirror /usr /var, etc with vinum (mdconfig) or you
> could use ccd if you wish.
> 
>