Profuse apologies for any wrong list, missed faqs, etc. But I am looking for help with using gvinum to set up a raid volume. I have read the handbook, and I sort of understand how it works, I just cannot seem to figure out how to "do" it. My setup is a box running 6.0-RELEASE, I have 1 200G wd drive that I have set up as the os and I have 6 200G wd drives that I want to combine in a raid (hopefully 5, but just knowing how to do any would be great). Any pointers to howto docs ins the form of "first do this, then do thiis, etc." would be helpful mostly I don't understand ow to prepare the drives in the array to be used by gvinum. I could probably figure out he rest on my own given enough time and monkeys. Thanks, Brad --------------------- Brad Miele bmiele@ipnstock.com
brad miele wrote:>> Profuse apologies for any wrong list, missed faqs, etc. But I am >> looking for help with using gvinum to set up a raid volume. I have >> read the handbook, and I sort of understand how it works, I just >> cannot seem to figure out how to "do" it. >> >> My setup is a box running 6.0-RELEASE, I have 1 200G wd drive that I >> have set up as the os and I have 6 200G wd drives that I want to >> combine in a raid (hopefully 5, but just knowing how to do any would >> be great). >> >> Any pointers to howto docs ins the form of "first do this, then do >> thiis, etc." would be helpful mostly I don't understand ow to prepare >> the drives in the array to be used by gvinum. I could probably figure >> out he rest on my own given enough time and monkeys. >> > >There is an article on the O'Reilly BSD Devcenter about setting up software RAID 1 with FreeBSD as a step by step tutorial. Here is the link: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html I hope it helps. Cheers, Emil