gvinum help

[Emil Stoyanov]

brad miele wrote:


>> Profuse apologies for any wrong list, missed faqs, etc. But I am
>> looking for help with using gvinum to set up a raid volume. I have
>> read the handbook, and I sort of understand how it works, I just
>> cannot seem to figure out how to "do" it.
>>
>> My setup is a box running 6.0-RELEASE, I have 1 200G wd drive that I
>> have set up as the os and I have 6 200G wd drives that I want to
>> combine in a raid (hopefully 5, but just knowing how to do any would
>> be great).
>>
>> Any pointers to howto docs ins the form of "first do this, then do
>> thiis, etc." would be helpful mostly I don't understand ow to prepare
>> the drives in the array to be used by gvinum. I could probably figure
>> out he rest on my own given enough time and monkeys.
>>
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There is an article on the O'Reilly BSD Devcenter about setting up
software RAID 1 with FreeBSD as a step by step tutorial.  Here is the link:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html

I hope it helps.

Cheers,
Emil