Re: opinion on which software RAID to use

2006-03-02 Thread Alec Berryman
Rink Springer on 2006-03-02 20:30:03 +0100: > Hi Vivek, > > > Any opinions on which has both qualities: easy to configure/manage > > (ie, recover after failure) and performance? The handbook RAID page > > doesn't even mention gmirror. The atacontrol seems very simple to > > use, at least.

Re: GELI question

2006-02-18 Thread Alec Berryman
Balgansuren Batsukh on 2006-02-18 12:47:29 +0800: > I am trying to install/use FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. [...] > when i try to use "geli init -b /dev/ad0" on shell prompt, it says > "Unknown command: init" I had the same issue while using the Fixit image from the 6.0-RELEASE install cd; if you're ha

Re: Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI

2006-02-14 Thread Alec Berryman
Balgansuren Batsukh on 2006-02-15 00:17:18 +0800: > It is delete/erase existing all data on hard disk/partition. > > I need to find a way to migrate existing partition/hard disk data > without lose. You'll need to make a backup of the data, erase the partition, create an encrypted one in its pla

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Alec Berryman
Hans F. Nordhaug on 2005-06-04 00:26:20 +0200: > I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk > breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other > disk. Just as fair warning, you should not rely on RAID as a 'backup' like you would rely on writing to removab

Re: sshd on 5.4-STABLE broken!?

2005-05-18 Thread Alec Berryman
Kipp Holger on 2005-05-18 14:19:53 +0200: > - can I provide any additional data? Are you in a position to restart sshd with multiple debug flags and have it spew to the console? (see sshd man page, options '-D' and '-d'). That, and connecting with ssh's verbose flag (1-3 '-v's), will probably gi