Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any
Tenebrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid.
If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution.
More to think about...thank you.
I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I suppose I
On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
(well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
It's a matter of the BIOS:
will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?
Yes indeed.
Daniel O'Connor writes:
On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
(well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
It's a matter of the BIOS:
will it complain, or will it proceed
I may need to build a box with a RAID 5 array.
After checking the OpenBSD pages for their bioctl's
driver support. Because I really prefer open drivers,
and bioctl seems to be coming Pretty Soon Now to FreeBSD too.
And their bioctl supports the AMI driver
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array
Daniel O'Connor writes:
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA RAID that
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Tenebrae wrote:
I was looking at the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA and Promise
FastTrak TX4300 4-port SATA RAID PCI adapters. I did find a note on the
Promise card that it is now supported in Current. Is this something that
might make its way into the 6.x-STABLE
On Monday 03 April 2006 12:00, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array can be used on ANY system.
(Except for booting)
More concisely, is this because said cheap RAID controllers all use
Hello out there in FreeBSD land (and I hope Søren peeks in, too).
I've been rather behind the times here and am finally getting around to
building a replacement server for my absolutely ancient FreeBSD 4.7
system. It's starting to experience problems (like a couple random
lock-ups/reboots) and
Tenebrae wrote:
The server will be primarily an e-mail and web server for private use
with some rather large files. There are only a handful of users, but it
gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update.
I hope to get this up and running in the next month.
If I've missed something
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote:
Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any RAID controller.
Ah, I knew I should have mentioned
Tenebrae wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote:
Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any RAID controller.
Ah, I knew I should
Tenebrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm interested in this newfangled serial ATA stuff I've been hearing
about (heh) and thought I might try my hand at getting a RAID1 mirror
going on for my home dirs. Sadly, I have no experience with RAID.
I had initially planned on just setting up two
On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
is just as fast as any RAID controller.
You can't boot off a system
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid.
If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution.
More to think about...thank you.
I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I suppose I
need to give more consideration to what my
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