ZFS: do not give it all your HDD I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan …
gmirror – recovering from a failed HDD I like RAID. On my development server, I use both hardware and software RAID. For hardware RAID on FreeBSD, I like 3Ware. For software RAID, I tend to use gmirror, because I don’t need more than RAID-1. Some time ago I added two 120GB HDD to this system. …
Adding gmirror to an existing installation This article describes how I created a RAID-1 cluster on my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE box using gmirror. Back in March, I bought an AMD Phenom(tm) and starting putting it together. You can read more about the box and the dual monitor setup here: Using two monitors with X.org Building an …