Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or will there be any complications with FreeBSD being initially

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
Hello, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in?

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in? Or i

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: I've just installed a new server with gmirror and I like it. I've got an identical server running on-board RAID currently. Can I split the array in the BIOS,

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:03, Igor Robul wrote: I recommend you to follow this rule:  If it is not broken, then dont fix it. In your case I think you better leave all as is. Igor Actually one of the reasons is I get loads of out of memory errors (and a few others) during high load. Prob

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this gmirror thing is scarily easy to set

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Ashley Moran wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i think - just YES. no problem Wojciech You were right to have faith! It went perfectly and the server is now up on gmirror. Only took 90 mins or so to rebuilt a 200GB disk too. I've got to say this

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Ashley Moran
On Apr 06, 2006, at 5:35 pm, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi Ashley, I'm glad things worked well for you. Faith got you this far but how long do you want to depend upon it? A long time ago I was tasked with the administration of some HP-UX boxes running on K-series hardware. I didn't setup the