raid 1 freebsd

[Dark Atheist]

is it possible to have a raid 1 set-up under freebsd but the drives aren't the same size - in that I mean I have 2x200gb hard drives and 2 160gb hard drives, now I will have a small website on the box and a small ftp, can I have a raid 1 set-up or is it that one set of drives is bigger than the others going to cause issues, I would prefer to use the two 200gb drives as they are sata and would be better for hosting on

 

[Geffy]

You could probably gconcat one 200 and one 160 to give you 2 360GB drives, then gmirror them

 

[Dark Atheist]

i was with you up until gmirror - i have a gconcat readme X did for me should be easy to use that as a guide just need idiots guide to gmirror

 

[X-Istence]

man gmirror
man gconcat

 

[Dark Atheist]

man needbrain

 

[LordOfLA]

gmirror is fantastically simple

Took 2 minute to setup a raid 1 mirror for a customer before xmas

I don't do it enough to remember the commands you type, but I remember it was only 4 commands and a reboot to get going.

I don't imagine concat (raid 0) being any harder.

 

[Dark Atheist]

yes but you all know what your doing and have been using BSD a lot longer than i have - so things seem rather simple (like me)