which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X?

Danny Howard dannyman at toldme.com
Thu May 19 16:31:35 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:01:29PM -0700, Jev wrote:
> Danny Howard wrote:

> > You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. 
> > Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement,
> > and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of copying data from the
> > known good disk.
> 
> Hi danny, thanks for the reply.
> 
> What do you use for RAID0? I'm aware of geom mirror, and raid3 classes...

If you want it done for the boot system, it gets tricky.  I've always
done it with hardware.  If you already have a way to boot, then gvinum,
or some comination of gmirror and gstripe ought to work for you.

-danny

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