From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 01:12:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B07016A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ims1.infomail.com.tw (211-21-27-36.HINET-IP.hinet.net [211.21.27.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A80143FD7 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kclee@tiny.ws) Received: from michael (dns2 [211.21.27.38]) by ims1.infomail.com.tw (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h927tZt24072 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:55:40 +0800 Message-ID: <000c01c388bc$ed1fcfa0$ca00a8c0@michael> From: "Michael Lee" To: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:12:25 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: use Software RAID on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:12:47 -0000 Hello, I've read the howto of setting up a software RAID using FreeBSD's vinum. It seems that I can only install the system first on a small disk ( the boot disk ) before we can try to set /etc/vinum.conf for Software RAID support. I wonder if I can just strip up 2 or more disks before I perform the actual BSD installation. In this case, not even the newly mount ( created by vinum ) file systems are of RAID support, but also the / file system can benefit from RAID. Actually, I am planning on using RAID-0 for my test box. Is the boot image capable of doing so ? Or if you have any suggestion ? Thank you! Michael Lee