Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:35:41 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? Message-ID: <20030623040541.GI93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com> References: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com>
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--j85S6sJewUjCM/cp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 5:00:23 +0300, Johan Paul wrote: > Hi all! > > This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a > more suitable mailing list for my question. > > I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to > migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. > > My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have > two qually sized IDE hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the > other one. Now the question is: can I make a RAID-1 array of these > two disks while FreeBSD is installed on the other one (using vinum or > other...)? Or how do I get RAID-1 to work on these two disks? FreeBSD > got one slice from each disk that occupy the whole disk. Only the first > disk is partitioned into 4 pieces (details about the partitions might be > unneccesary...?). > > I've read some of the vinum documentation but it is unclear to me if > it is possible to set up a RAID-1 on a running file system - and if my > assumptions are correct, that it is impossible, it is unclear to me > how to set up this software RAID-1? You might like to take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf or http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.txt. This is the Vinum chapter from "The Complete FreeBSD". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --j85S6sJewUjCM/cp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+9nyVIubykFB6QiMRApfUAJ9t1ykYtbSeMP2f4dpwjzRnpBc2JgCgos3x yKCuA97JPGYNOv01OEArg4s= =siSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j85S6sJewUjCM/cp--
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