On 1 June 2012 13:49, Manolis Tzanidakis <mtzanida...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri (01/06/12), Marc Peters wrote: > > Be aware, that OpenBSD cannot boot from softraid. / needs to be on a > > single disk, but can be automatically backuped to an altroot device. > > Nowadays it does. My server's / is on a softraid(4) RAID-1 array. > The basic idea is to have a small 'a' slice for the kernel on each > disk and a 'd' (or whatever) for the raid. > installboot(8) does the right thing automatically these days. > > I think there is an article on undeadly with more detailed instructions > / explanations. > > A raid on USB devices is not a good idea for a whole lot of other > reasons though. > > -- > Manolis Tzanidakis > http://mtzanidakis.com/ > mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com >
Oh you are obviously such a seasoned OpenBSD expert, please tell us more about your USB RAID experience and why it is a bad idea. It would be great if you could also go into deeper detail about / on softraid - you must be the first one to mention it here on misc and i'm sure everyone reading this is eager to learn how to make it work. Best regards
