Hello, and thank you for your reply...
Quoting Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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Chris H. wrote:
Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set?
If not, why?
If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available drives
with
the data on the installed drive?
sysinstall does not provide any simple method of setting up a
gmirror RAID-1 itself, but it is fairly easy to escape from the
installer and type in a few shell commands to set such a thing up.
There are instructions here:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
Hah! That's funny. I just picked up a copy of "The Complete FreeBSD 4th
edition"
the other day. But haven't had an opportunity to read it yet. Guess I'd
better get to it. :)
Yes, you can convert a drive with a plain vanilla install of FreeBSD on
it into part of a gmirror setup easily and without having to worry about
rebuilding filesystems.
Seems so. But if you've got much data, and don't have a DVD, or tape
magazine on it. You'll need to do the operation (likely) over NFS,
and likely requiring a couple of re-boots.
As I look at this (gmirror at sysinstall time) closer, it occurs to
me that it wouldn't be very difficult to implement response script
that asked questions for a basic gmirror setup that would encompass
all drives available (seen/understood) and offered to create:
swap
/
/boot
/usr
/var
and simply asked how big the slices should be made.
Just a thought.
Thanks again for the response.
Chris
Cheers,
Matthew
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