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Date:      Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:49:41 +0900
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tommi_L=E4tti?= <sty@iki.fi>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3ware cards work in AMD64 port?
Message-ID:  <9EECAEA6-6548-4EE3-BF0F-D52142D41E37@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20050607004922.P91224@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456E9FA@vip10-win2k.vipstructures.com> <20050606120017.B87454@zoraida.natserv.net> <200506060944.51553.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <20050607004922.P91224@zoraida.natserv.net>

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On 7 Jun 2005, at 13:51, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Freddie Cash wrote:
>
>
>> If the load is low, and you only want RAID1, have you considered the
>> software RAID capabilities of ccd(4), gmirror(8), and gvium(8)?
>>
>
> Not really.. Would they be able to mirror the boot partition?

I've been running gmirror on three different servers since January  
(everything mirrored, boots fine) and recovered from one crash. After  
crash I had to manually remove the problem drive from the mirror  
config and insert a new one but otherwise it's been a breeze.

here's a set of good instructions how to setup gmirror on system disk:
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/

-- 
br,
Tommi



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