Setting up gmirror

[Wojciech Puchar]

> And what exactly do you classify controllers such as the Promise TX4310
> and the Promise S150 SX4 as?  The TX4310 could be classified as
> "software RAID", but a few of the features are offloaded onto the
> controller.  The SX4 is the same way, but has actual on-board cache.

si it do something by hardware. anyway - i don't think it will actually 
make it faster under FreeBSD (contrary to windoze).

it's simply not worth money.

> You like to declare everything as "software RAIDs", while I like to
> discern the difference between them using (what I believe to be) more
> accurate terminology:
>
> BIOS-level RAID (Adaptec HostRAID, Intel MatrixRAID; "chipset" RAID)
> OS-based RAID (gvinum, ccd, etc.)

what are the difference between 1 and 2?

there are none.