Software RAID options

2010-01-29 Thread Danny Edge
What works for you and can you suggest a guide? I haven't setup a BSD server in 8 years, but my environment will be: FreeBSD 7.2 Release x2 HD's (not the same size, if I need to spend the money, on two like drives, kindly insist) DNS cache and auth Postfix MTA 1 user/1 IMAP mailbox & less than 10G

Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-29 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Danny Edge wrote: > What works for you and can you suggest a guide? I haven't setup a BSD server > in 8 years, but my environment will be: I've been using gmirror for some time, without problems. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html > > FreeBSD 7.2 Re

Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-29 Thread Danny Edge
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Danny Edge wrote: > > What works for you and can you suggest a guide? I haven't setup a BSD > server > > in 8 years, but my environment will be: > > I've been using gmirror for some time, without problems. > > http://www.freebsd.org/do

Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote: > Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror > mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror > for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk). It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather th

Software RAID options for a media server

2008-08-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Guys, As my dream of a hardware based SCSI RAID root disk was so soundly dashed, I have been trying to figure out the most appropriate software implementation for a media server. Which sw RAID is best for streaming media? The options I have are: RAID1z, the redundancy is not my concern s