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 and set up gmirror between the two (see below). This > volume would house either the entire OS or just the root partition at your > option, but it needs to be large enough to house at least a minimal install > of the OS temporarily. I'd then create additional partitions using the > remaining space on each disk and turn those into a new, blank gstripe > volume. If you don't want the whole OS on your mirror, you could then > move /usr, etc over to the stripe volume (but you don't have to). That's basically the answer I got in the meantime from a few of my more experienced colleagues as well. So, I'll probably go with that option and create a 512Mb root partition on the first disk, install the OS, create a gmirror and add the second disk to the mirror, build the RAID-1 array, then gstripe the rest and move /usr, /tmp, /var to it etc. 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). Regards, -- Nino _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
