I wrote a wiki page about that topic here: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/
but as Greear said, today we shift more and more to FS based Raids / Mirrors.. 2013/2/26 Samuel J. Greear <[email protected]> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Joel Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if I want to do soft RAID10 is vinum(8) the way to go? > > > > The main purpose is to crank up the I/O rate without loosing too much > reliability. > > > > It is intended for my personal/private file server at home, so a > temporary loss of availability is not an issue (for now, it may change). > > > > Regards, > > Joel > > There are various options for software raid in DragonFly but a > hardware raid controller is generally considered the most reliable > option. > > Typically though in DragonFly you would hammer mirror-stream between > disks for redundancy and utilize swapcache to acheive your throughput > needs. > > Sam >
