On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a server running 4.8 on a single disk. I'd like to set it up > to mirror and be bootable. Killer performance isn't critical, but > maximal flexibility to frankenstein it together from spare parts is. > > So, I'm shying away from hardware raids, and even the pseudo-hardware > raids. > > I'd like to just stuff two ata drives in there and use atacontrol to > set them up. > > I gather that I can't just cram a second disk into the existing > system, rather I'll have to do dumps to somewhere, set up a raid, > disklabel/newfs, then restore the dumps onto the raid. Is that an > accurate summary.
AFAIK, that is correct. > > Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds > like atacontrol's "rebuild" command only works w/ real controllers. > Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or??? Do I > need to add the new disk into the raid somehow? I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID. Both support booting from the RAID. -- Josh > > Thanks! > > g. > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
