Hi all,
This might be kind of a newbie question - I apologize for that.
This is my first time I use a hardware RAID card on a server. I was wondering if there are any issues with FreeBSD (4.8R) regarding these cards? Will FreeBSD see the RAID1 as a single hard drive that I just need to partition and label? And if I need to replace a failed hard
Yes, it just sees a single ordinary drive.
drive in the RAID array I assume the card will do the rebuilding of the array while FreeBSD will function as normal even when I need to reboot the machine?
Yes, the RAIDing is completely transparent to the OS. You don't even have to reboot the machine if the disks are hot-swappable. Just pull the dead one out, install the new one, and the controller will bring it up to speed. RAID-1 is much faster to rebuild than RAID-5 (just a casual observation; I'm not sure if that's a hard-and-fast rule).
I checked that the card I intended to use (Promise FastTrak TX2) is supported by FreeBSD so I don't assume any problems installing FreeBSD either.
Thanks for any answers :-)
you're welcome.
David
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