From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 26 17:34:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE95F16A421 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:34:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740E013C43E for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:34:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:50 -0400 id 00056405.46814E3A.00004E80 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by mx01 (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 26 Jun 2007 12:34:50 -0500 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" To: Dominic Bishop In-Reply-To: <20070626000501.8282313C455@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20070626000501.8282313C455@mx1.freebsd.org> Organization: Collaborative Fusion, Inc. Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1182879289.67654.69.camel@soundwave.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port x-pineapp-mail-mail-from: bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com x-pineapp-mail-rcpt-to: dom@bishnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from a large RAID 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: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:34:51 -0000 For sanity-sake, most systems have a split backplane 2x4 (Check the Dell PowerEdge 2950 for example) with a RAID-1 root for the system (36gig 15k RPM etc.) and then a 4x150 or whatever RAID5/RAID10 for the "Application" data. This creates some abstraction and aids in emergency situations. ~BAS On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 00:39 +0100, Dominic Bishop wrote: > Ideally I would like this to be configured as a single large RAID5 or > RAID6 > array, -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.