On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to > FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by > Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) > > I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL > partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will > still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to > suggestions. > > I've been searching and cant find any pointers on how to set this up > properly. I've been reading http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ , but > this is works for RAID 1. > > Could anyone offer any insights / ideas / pointers (or step by step if > you so feel inclined to :-) ) on how to set this up?
I don't think it's possible -- the loader doesn't know about the mirror even in a mirrored / setup; it justs treats one of the disks of the mirror as 'the boot disk'. It's not until the kernel is loaded that gvinum RAID-5 can do something. So, in your case, the loader would read random RAID-5 data instead of a kernel and refuse to boot. IE, it's not possible until someone writes a RAID-5 capable loader. I would advise you to either use gmirror for booting, or define a few gvinum mirror plexes (it is possible to boot from a mirrored gvinum setup although it's tricky to get right). --Stijn -- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
