Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives

Will Maier willmaier at ml1.net
Fri Sep 30 15:19:56 PDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:19:40PM -0700, Raistlin Majere wrote:
> If you were trying to get the aggregate of the two disks and use them as
> /home you could use a RAID card of some kind to convince the OS to see
> those two disks as one big disk (using RAID1) and then go through the
> standard install, and designate the RAID as the /home partition,...

(Please don't CC me; I read the list : ) )

RAID would be a doable solution, but it's likely overkill for the
user. Another option would be vinum[0] (FreeBSD's logical volume
manager).

[0]A relevant article: http://www.freebsddiary.org/vinum.php

> but that has other disadvantages (cost of the RAID card, setup of
> the RAID, risk that if one disk dies, you lose all of /home., etc)

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is designed to prevent
the 'one disk goes, so goes /home' problem. RAID1 ('mirroring')
should do just fine mitigating this issue.

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