From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 18:22:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10627 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:22:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA25742; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:52:11 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA41013; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:52:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:52:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Keith Woodman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Message-ID: <19990113125208.Z8886@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Woodman on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:24:05AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 12 January 1999 at 11:24:05 -0800, Keith Woodman wrote: > I have been given the task of installing FreeBSD 3.0 onto a dual 450Mhz > system for use as a web server. I know very little about RAID, just the > basics on the differnces between the versions. > The system has 6 - 9.5 gig drives in an array and came preinstalled with > 3.0 . I am supposed to take the system down and build it up from scratch > again as a learning exersize and intro to RAID. > Here is my question. > Are there any particulars I should know about while formating the disks > in the nifty FreeBSD install. Meaning, When I boot from the floppy and > begin the net install on this, will the system see the array as one drive > still or is there something in the way I partition and format the disks > that will make FreeBSD see it as a single disk? That depends on your RAID controller. > I am assuming the RAID controler is taking care of this but am not > entirely sure. That's an assumption. You need to find out. > We are using UFS as our file system which I may also be making the > error of assuming makes no difference. It's difficult to say. > Also, any advise, horror stories or words of wisdom on this would > be greatly appreciated. Most of all, I would like to find a good source of > reading on RAID as it pertains to FreeBSD. All I can say based on this message is ``insufficient information''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message