Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:56 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror > > Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/ Also, I recently updated the plugin code to r270 with some patches from Scott Swanson. You can see a small screenshot of it in action here: ht

Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-04 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/ Cheers! ~BAS (Dealing with a fucked up gmirror raid 1 this morning) On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:32 +, Robin Becker wrote: > I set this system up using Dru Lavigne's recipe, but I don't really > understand -

software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-04 Thread Robin Becker
I'm using software raid 1 on a 6.1 freebsd. This is a so called cold swap system, but I wonder how much it actually improves reliability. First off what should I be doing to detect error conditions and secondly what happens if the machine refuses to boot. I set this system up usin

Software RAID-1 FreeBSD 5.4

2006-03-04 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, This is on FreeBSD 5.4 latest stable snapshot on January. I've followed the instructions at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html for creating software RAID, which appears to have been successful. the raid created, and synched, couple of reboots all is good. So

Re: Software RAID-1 - Swap partition

2005-07-06 Thread Danny Howard
John Oxley wrote: Hi, I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the whol

Software RAID-1 - Swap partition

2005-06-30 Thread John Oxley
Hi, I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the whole of the drive. Can

RE: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Behalf Of ptitoliv >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:56 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4 > > >Hello again, > >Thank you for all your answers ! I am going to look at gmirror and ccd. >But I have a last question. My disks are d

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Ean Kingston
On June 29, 2005 05:59 pm, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:56:16PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote: > > But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor > > detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected > > with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have pro

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:56:16PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote: > But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor > detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected > with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems trying to use RAID with > this configuration ? Not

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread ptitoliv
Hello again, Thank you for all your answers ! I am going to look at gmirror and ccd. But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems trying to use RAID with this co

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Casey Scott
eeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create > with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but > lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am > asking you what is the best solution to make RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4. > > Thank you for your answers >

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread albi
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:28:22 +0200 ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create > with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but > lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeB

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 21:28 schrieb ptitoliv: > Hello everybody, > > I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create > with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but > lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD

Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread ptitoliv
Hello everybody, I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am asking you what is the best solution to make RAID-1 on FreeBSD

Software RAID-1 - root filesystem confusion

2003-09-25 Thread Chris Hastie
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote: I'm looking at building a FreeBSD server with two identical 60GB hard drives configured with software RAID-1. What would be the best way to set about this? The

Re: Software RAID-1

2003-09-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote: > I'm looking at building a FreeBSD server with two identical 60GB hard > drives configured with software RAID-1. What would be the best way to > set about this? Vinum or RaidFrame (which it appears from release not

Software RAID-1

2003-09-21 Thread Chris Hastie
I'm looking at building a FreeBSD server with two identical 60GB hard drives configured with software RAID-1. What would be the best way to set about this? Vinum or RaidFrame (which it appears from release notes / errata doesn't work on 5.1) or something else? And what is a sensible

Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

2003-06-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
m a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. > > My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have > two qually sized IDE hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the > other one. Now the question is: can I make a RAID-1 array of these > two disks while FreeBSD is instal

Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

2003-06-22 Thread Joshua Oreman
t thought it might be a nice idea to > migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. > > My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have > two qually sized IDE hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the > other one. Now the question is: can I make a R

Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

2003-06-22 Thread Johan Paul
Hi all! This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a more suitable mailing list for my question. I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD

Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas McIntyre
22, 2003 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? Hi all! I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have two ID