Re: Booting from a large RAID
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 Tue, 2007-06-26 at 00:39 +0100, Dominic Bishop wrote: > Ideally I would like this to be configured as a single large RAID5 or > RAID6 > array, -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Booting from a large RAID
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
> sacrifice some capacity from the RAID in order to achieve this.
Maybe you can make a USB bootable thumbdrive, if your bios supports booting
from USB devices... you can find them in the low GB sizes now, which should be
enough for the OS to bootup.
Alternatively, one of the IDE Flash cards (attached to the server's IDE
channel) - it may be a cluttered inside the server , but they are actually the
size of a USB thumbdrive. for example,
http://www.pqimemory.com/products-Domindustrial.asp
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