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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"