gmirror on 7B4

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Jan 2 02:13:21 PST 2008


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Chris H. wrote:
> Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set?
> If not, why?
> If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available drives
> with
> the data on the installed drive?

sysinstall does not provide any simple method of setting up a
gmirror RAID-1 itself, but it is fairly easy to escape from the
installer and type in a few shell commands to set such a thing up.

There are instructions here:

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

Yes, you can convert a drive with a plain vanilla install of FreeBSD on
it into part of a gmirror setup easily and without having to worry about
rebuilding filesystems.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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