From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 23 19:54:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF1616A418 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:54:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabe@dragffy.com) Received: from pixeco.com (pixeco.com [216.70.123.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD5013C459 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:54:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabe@dragffy.com) Received: (qmail 26476 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2007 19:54:29 +0000 Received: from 88-105-44-36.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO ?192.168.1.66?) (88.105.44.36) by pixeco.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2007 19:54:29 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <46F6B0B6.5010107@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <9F2B2568-9F37-4422-85F4-4740533A0DAD@dragffy.com> <26ddd1750709211713o36dfabb5ua9f57747d75dc44@mail.gmail.com> <20070923171510.GA12701@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <46F6B0B6.5010107@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gabriel Dragffy Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:53:47 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Subject: Re: Software RAID5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:54:30 -0000 On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Roland Smith wrote: > >> The things that you should encrypt are /home and maybe /var. > > and swap. Encrypting the swap is really quite important. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Oh you know what? I grabbed an ubuntu disc, in the installation I configured each of the three hard drives with a 1GB partition which became software RAID 1, and the rest of the space another partition which became RAID 5 doodah. I configured all this during the installation using that debian installer, booted no probs. Next thing was to: sudo -i sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install netatalk -y OK, done, RAID 5 system, with the OS running on RAID 1, netatlk installed and working a few seconds after, total time was about 45 minutes. I've spent 4 days chasing my tail in freebsd. Wish freebsd would be able to help me out with software raid in sysinstall. I'd still very much like to figure out how to do this in freebsd, but unfortunately spending two weeks to do it makes me look incompetent to my employers. FreeBSD is running a web/database/email server and doing a fantastic job for that, so it might just be a case of horses for courses... Regards Gabe