Software RAID5

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote:

> On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy <gabe at dragffy.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
>> internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation
>> is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives
>> which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root
>> partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for  
>> assistance.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Gabriel
>
>> From what I know, you're not going to be able to boot from them.
> However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive
> 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.


Hi Maxim

This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and  
then install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once  
freebsd is installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive  
because it already has freebsd on it.

Regards

gabe