Remo Lacho wrote:
>On 6/4/2005 at 12:26 AM Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > > > >>Dear list, >> >>I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk >>breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other disk. >>I have followed the mailing list for a while and read some howtos, >>but I'm not sure if this is possible (without doing all kinds of tricks >>when the accidents happens - removing meta data and so on). In >>addition, I thought, gvinum was the way to go, but hasn't there been >>some problems with it (reported here lately)? I'm running 5.3 - what >>do you recommend - gvinum, ccd, others? What is the definitive howto for >>the recommend solution. Thx for your time. >> >>Regards, >>Hans >>... >> >> > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >Good place to start: > ><http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/> > > > > Up to a point - beware of geom_mirror with USB and FireWire disks - it's temperamental at best and with my FireWire drives simple won't work reliably (panic during boot if a rebuild is needed and unrecoverable errors during rebuilds). I've just re-done the mirror set on my box with gvinum and so far it's looking good - it boots ok and rebuild is a lot faster. This on a 5-STABLE box with a FW800 card a 2x LaCie 500GB bigger disk extreme external FW drives. If this works for my next trick I'll try RAID5 with 4x250gb usb drives. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"