Software RAID

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:40:40 -0800 (PST), Steve Lee <maillist at blitzen.net> said:

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

There are ways to do that, but in order for that to work at all you
need to have BIOS support.  Some of the ATA ``RAID'' products work
like that: they have BIOS support for mirroring/failover, but the
operating system has to do all the work once it's booted.  FreeBSD
supports these controllers reasonably well, and they are quite
economical.

-GAWollman