Re: Run existing FreeBSD installation inside jail

2006-07-21 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
Mikhail Vladimirov wrote: >> 3c: Upgrade the old system in place (mergemaster, installworld, etc.) to >> the same version your new system is running. > You mean to update 4.x to 6.x in place inside jail using sources? But > AFAIK it is not recommended to do source update from 4.x to 6.x. Of cou

Re: Run existing FreeBSD installation inside jail

2006-07-21 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
Mikhail Vladimirov wrote: > I want to try the following trick: > > 1. Install FreeBSD 6.x-STABLE on the separate HDD, while it is inside > my home PC. > 2. Place this HDD into server, make it bootable. > 3. Boot new system, and mount old HDD (with FreeBSD 4.x and all old > stuff) > 4. Setup jail

Slow RAID1 with gmirror

2006-07-21 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
Hi. I've been setting up some gmirror based software RAID1s lately, and I keep running into some odd behaviour. Writing to the RAID1 runs at near to normal rates, as expected. But reading from the RAID1 runs at half the normal rates, while I expected to get double rates. I've tested this on 6.0