On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea.
software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases.
just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except:
a) mostly
can justify the performance. This is also an addition of yet
another piece of hardware that can fail.
The machine is using a Q6600 processor with 8 GB of memory, so I'm
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea.
The question is what port multiplier hardware does FreeBSD 7
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea.
software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases.
just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except:
a) mostly reads - then set LARGE RAID stripe size
b) mostly huge files - then set small RAID stripe
On 22 Sep 2007, at 09:03, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc.
AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a
small root partition.
yes you can
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Hi Wojciech
Would you be able to give me any tips or know of any howtos
On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation
is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and then
install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once freebsd is
installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive because it already
has
On 9/23/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and then
install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once freebsd is
installed, but by then I am
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Roland Smith wrote:
The things that you should encrypt are /home and maybe /var.
and swap. Encrypting the swap is really quite important.
Cheers,
Matthew
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On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:30, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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Roland Smith wrote:
The things that you should encrypt are /home and maybe /var.
and swap. Encrypting the swap is really quite important.
Cheers,
Matthew
Oh you know what?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet
seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too
technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet
seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too
technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a
raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too
and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the
boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you
specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or
/etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID
array. This is how I
If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc.
AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a
small root partition.
yes you can
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On 22 Sep 2007, at 08:42, Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
internet
seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a
little too
technical. Basically
On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive
and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the
boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you
specify which root device to use (either
On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:19, Roland Smith wrote:
To elaborate, the loader doesn't know about the RAID layout. It is
only
usable _after_ the kernel has loaded.
I read in the FreeBSD hanbook that I can have root on raid 5 by
doing the
following:
There is another option as well, to have
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation
is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives
which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root
partition
On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation
is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives
which I'd like to have in a raid5
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