well, it says : For this to be possible at all, the following requirements must be met for the root volume:
a.. The root volume must not be striped or RAID-5. b.. The root volume must not contain more than one concatenated subdisk per plex. and i want : > > I want to use all 4 drives as a raid 5 array and use the combined space for > > storage. thanks for your reply . please feel free to correct me again if i'm wrong Moti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Moti Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:49 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD - software raid > Moti Levy wrote: > > Hi, > > before I do the unthinkable and use Linux for a server , I ask for your > > help. > > I have a set of 4 IDE drives . > > I need to build a file server that'll run samba/nfs > > I've done this. Works very well. > > > I want to use all 4 drives as a raid 5 array and use the combined space for > > storage. > > is there a way to do it with FreeBSD ? > > I looked at ccd and vinum but as far as my understanding goes , I cant use > > it during setup but rather build the > > system first and than use ccd/vinum on all BUT the system disk . > > am I wrong ? > > Yes. > > > is there a solution out there ? > > You can use all four drives in your Vinum array. There used to be a > restriction that the root partition could not be part of the Vinum array, > but that's no longer the case, see the Vinum section of the handbook: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html > And specifically this: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
