From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 16:37:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.dnai.com (oberon.dnai.com [207.181.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930D237C36F for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matteo@triton.dnai.com) Received: from triton.dnai.com (sendmail@triton.dnai.com [207.181.195.20]) by oberon.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA30038 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from matteo@localhost) by triton.dnai.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA14537 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matteo) Message-ID: <20000627163520.B14393@dnai.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:35:20 -0700 From: Matt Harrington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best RAID config for system disk? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i X-PureVoice: Voicemail welcome. http://www.eurdora.com/purevoice Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Mylex Acceleraid 250 controller and I'd like to use it to build some reliability into a mail/web/ftp server. i'd like to put the system disk under some RAID configuration. is the best setup RAID 0+1? if so, how many drives does this require with this particular Mylex controller? i've heard mentioned that this controller can do 0+1 with 2 drives, but I don't see how that would work. i'm under the assumtion that i need 3 drives. i suppose i'll put them into a hot-swappable rackmount enclosure, probably with an Abit KA7/Athlon setup i already have. also, how do i know when a drive fails? will something useful pop up in the syslog which tells me which drive to replace? ---Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message