Re: Booting from a large RAID

2007-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:39:52 +0100 Dominic Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point I'm assuming my only option is a separate small HD for the OS which can be partitioned using bsdlabel. Ideally I would rather not do this however as the server cases only have 16 drive bays so I'll have to

Re: Booting from a large RAID

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
For sanity-sake, most systems have a split backplane 2x4 (Check the Dell PowerEdge 2950 for example) with a RAID-1 root for the system (36gig 15k RPM etc.) and then a 4x150 or whatever RAID5/RAID10 for the Application data. This creates some abstraction and aids in emergency situations. ~BAS On

Booting from a large RAID

2007-06-25 Thread Dominic Bishop
I am looking to deploy some new fileservers shortly running on either RELENG_6_2 or RELENG_6, these servers will have 16x500GB SATA drives running on a 3ware 9650 raid controller. Ideally I would like this to be configured as a single large RAID5 or RAID6 array, however this leaves me problems