On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Donald Reichert <silvershadow...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. > > What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I have two SSDs in each of the machines, my initial planning was to do some RAID-1 in order to push uptime. (I have to admit that as a former Linux sceptic I have made excellent experience with their RAID stuff -- thus my planning.)
You will not be happy with reliability of SSD http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal e.html . Laptop/Workstation is different use and SSDs are used as cache and not as storage in places where you need to trust your storage. > > However, as the years went by and my NetBSD knowledge isn't the best any more (hint: RAIDframe), I'm not sure how to set up my OpenBSD routers. Is there any 'best practice guide' out there? FAQ is a bit thin: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID > > So, after all I wanted to use softraid(4) and put everything except root there, as, from what I read, OpenBSD cannot boot off a RAID partition at the moment. Is that correct? There are some "workarounds" until full boot support will be available http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110530221728 > > Thanks, > > Donald > -- > Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de
