n j wrote:
John,
thank you very much for your detailed input.
If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering
your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install
everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical partition
on
John,
thank you very much for your detailed input.
If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering
your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install
everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical partition
on the second disk
On Friday 07 September 2007, n j wrote:
Hello,
I have a machine which has 2 (identical) hard disks. I would like to
create RAID-0 GEOM stripe (gstripe(8)) to merge these 2 disks into 1
disk with larger capacity and install FreeBSD on it. There is this
article
On Friday 07 September 2007, John Nielsen wrote:
I assume you're aware of all the caveats that go along with using RAID-0
(no redundancy, twice as likely to fail, etc.). You can't use the method
Dru outlines to create a gstripe volume since you can't add drives to a
gstripe after it's created.
n j wrote:
On a side note, it would be nice if creating RAID arrays was included
in the FreeBSD install similar to Debian install (according to my
colleague, haven't seen it myself).
I agree, but this would take a non-trivial effort to make happen. I
hope you'll consider working on it or
