From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 4 22:24:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA12106566C for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogreve@millennics.com) Received: from smtp-4.concepts.nl (smtp-4.concepts.nl [213.197.30.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8268D8FC08 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogreve@millennics.com) Received: from 5571ff42.ftth.concepts.nl ([85.113.255.66] helo=[192.168.1.101]) by smtp-4.concepts.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MNDew-0006z4-0N for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:24:38 +0200 Message-Id: From: Olaf Greve To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:24:32 +0200 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Concepts-MailScanner-Information: Please contact abuse@concepts.nl for more information X-Concepts-MailScanner-ID: 1MNDew-0006z4-0N X-Concepts-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Concepts-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Concepts-MailScanner-From: ogreve@millennics.com Subject: Re: Howto do SW RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:24:42 -0000 Hi Pete, >None of those things are true anymore on the latest -STABLE and amd64. + >Given your system I'd acquire a 3rd drive (4 gig flash card will do) for >boot and then make a ZFS mirror our of the existing two and stick >everything significant onto that. It works very nicely indeed. Alright, thanks for the extra input! Good to hear that the reported initial issues are now a thing of the past too. Meanwhile... earlier today I made up my mind: it seemed to me that the gmirror way involved less steps to configure it, and I need to have the machine set-up in as little time as possible, between a million of other matters. Also, the machine that has the failed drive will in due time be used by me for experimenting with some things (a.o. using newer PHP and MySQL versions than I use at present too), and I shall keep the e-mails and links on this subject and conduct a test with it when I've got some more air in my schedule. It certainly sounds like a cool filesystem! Then, as written above, in between matters I've set up the system using gmirror; it all worked very easily and I'm now at the level that I've set-up the ports tree, SSH access, etc. Tomorrow I'll reconstruct the rsync calls and DB syncing scripts etc. and then the machine should be go for acting as back-up machine while I'm abroad for a few weeks. Thanks again to you guys for your help and ideas! Cheers, Olafo