I need further HDD advice before submitting order.

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed May 11 13:37:54 PDT 2005


> 
> Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first 
> > post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror.  It uses the 
> > new GEOM code (like gvinum) but gmirror has a man page and is feature 
> > complete.  As of 5.3, gvinum did not have all the commands implemented 
> > (not sure about it in 5.4).
> > 
> > If you are not using 5.x then sorry for missing the beginning of the 
> > thread.
> 
> No, it will be 5.3 sure enough, that's their standard install I think, 
> upgrading to 5.4 will be one of my first tasks.

Might as well start with 5.4 from scratch.  It was released a couple
of days ago.

////jerry

> Will definitely check out gmirror and any other options, got to make 
> this as idiot-proof as possible because, sadly, I'm an idiot.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Donnacha
> 
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