Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:31:40 -0500 From: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid Message-ID: <20050227153139.GA22766@music> In-Reply-To: <200502271359.36162.bsd@bathnetworks.com> References: <200502271359.36162.bsd@bathnetworks.com>
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:59:35PM +0000, Robert Slade wrote: > I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up > so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte > drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to mirror them using sofware > raid and mount them as /home to hold the users data which is critical. > > I have read the manual and searched the web for a simple way to do the above. > The manual seems to cover complex solutions and may be somewhat behind the > times. > > I guess what I am looking for is a howto couched in such a way that even a > windows user can understand :-). > > Any suggestions please. Someone else already recommended GEOM which I also recommend. I just setup gmirror for the fist time and I am very impressed with it. I did drive failure simulations for both ad0 and ad2 and was able to reconstruct the mirror each time. This howto is very good: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Andy
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