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- Nov 8, 2001
Our main server (NFS, NIS, back-up, mail, ssh, DNS, DHCP) running FreeBSD 4.7 went down. What happened is one of its 20 fans died, and theat must've pulled down the voltages. Anyway the OS hard drive was no longer stable and would freeze up after a day of running, most likely due to some data corruptiuon. It was an IBM deathstar anyway...
So this time around my boss and I thought we'd do some raid 1. The box already uses vinum to concatenate multiple 80GB drives for our back-up storage. (box has about 880GB of space on 12 different HDD's) So we thought we'd just setup a quick raid 1 using vinum for the root drive.... Wrong!!! Vinum instructions for mirroring on the OS drive were horribly written. Took many hours of frustration, but finally it worked.
Just wanted to post this short success story and put the topic out there for anyone else running vinum for software raid on a *BSD.
This is a way cool box, normally uptime counted in years, except for the occaisional hard drive failure or OS upgrade. Server stats:
Tyan 2460
2x XP 1600+
1024mb DDR
1.2GB swap
10x 80GB HDD's concatenated into 2 arrays of 240GB and 1 of 320GB
2x 40 GB HDD's raid 1
550w Enermax PSU
So this time around my boss and I thought we'd do some raid 1. The box already uses vinum to concatenate multiple 80GB drives for our back-up storage. (box has about 880GB of space on 12 different HDD's) So we thought we'd just setup a quick raid 1 using vinum for the root drive.... Wrong!!! Vinum instructions for mirroring on the OS drive were horribly written. Took many hours of frustration, but finally it worked.
Just wanted to post this short success story and put the topic out there for anyone else running vinum for software raid on a *BSD.
This is a way cool box, normally uptime counted in years, except for the occaisional hard drive failure or OS upgrade. Server stats:
Tyan 2460
2x XP 1600+
1024mb DDR
1.2GB swap
10x 80GB HDD's concatenated into 2 arrays of 240GB and 1 of 320GB
2x 40 GB HDD's raid 1
550w Enermax PSU
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