Software RAID5

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat Sep 22 01:03:41 PDT 2007


> and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the
> boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you
> specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or
> /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID
> array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop
> using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea
> for RAID.

isn't making small 50MB partition for booting easier?

/dev/ad0d.eli           /                       ufs     rw,noatime      0       1
/dev/ad0a               /b                      ufs     ro,noatime      0       2


boot is symlink to /b/boot


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