Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.
Hi, I have a server running 4.8 on a single disk. I'd like to set it up to mirror and be bootable. Killer performance isn't critical, but maximal flexibility to frankenstein it together from spare parts is. So, I'm shying away from hardware raids, and even the pseudo-hardware raids. I'd like to just stuff two ata drives in there and use atacontrol to set them up. I gather that I can't just cram a second disk into the existing system, rather I'll have to do dumps to somewhere, set up a raid, disklabel/newfs, then restore the dumps onto the raid. Is that an accurate summary. Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds like atacontrol's rebuild command only works w/ real controllers. Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or??? Do I need to add the new disk into the raid somehow? Thanks! g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: Hi, I have a server running 4.8 on a single disk. I'd like to set it up to mirror and be bootable. Killer performance isn't critical, but maximal flexibility to frankenstein it together from spare parts is. So, I'm shying away from hardware raids, and even the pseudo-hardware raids. I'd like to just stuff two ata drives in there and use atacontrol to set them up. I gather that I can't just cram a second disk into the existing system, rather I'll have to do dumps to somewhere, set up a raid, disklabel/newfs, then restore the dumps onto the raid. Is that an accurate summary. AFAIK, that is correct. Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds like atacontrol's rebuild command only works w/ real controllers. Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or??? Do I need to add the new disk into the raid somehow? I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID. Both support booting from the RAID. -- Josh Thanks! g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.
Joshua Oreman writes: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: [...] Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds like atacontrol's rebuild command only works w/ real controllers. Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or??? Do I need to add the new disk into the raid somehow? I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID. Both support booting from the RAID. I don't think RAIDframe is supported in Stable, is it? Is there a particular advantage to Vinum over the atacontrol stuff? g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:02:22PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: Joshua Oreman writes: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: [...] Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds like atacontrol's rebuild command only works w/ real controllers. Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or??? Do I need to add the new disk into the raid somehow? I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID. Both support booting from the RAID. I don't think RAIDframe is supported in Stable, is it? Is there a particular advantage to Vinum over the atacontrol stuff? It's more extensible, has loads more features, is better supported, will rebuild your RAID automatically if need be, you can boot from it, ... -- Josh g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
