Software RAID

[Ryan T. Dean]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:40:40PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote:
> So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails,
> i can't have the other drive boot up ?
> 
> DAMN

Vinum is capable of doing it, but its a little tricky.  Take a look: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html

		-Ryan T. Dean

> 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
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