Soft-raid (1) possible and reasonable ?
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hi,
i've found a lot of information about how to make a (hardware)raid-controller work. so my question is, if there's any native support for soft-raids in pfsense or generally in freebsd. coming from linux i'm searching for something like 'mdadm' or similar. is there any chance to get a raid working without an hardware raid controller ?
thx, martin.
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There is in FreeBSD, take a look at gmirror.
Be aware that this isn't a supported pfSense feature - you may render your box unbootable. I'd strongly advise that you take the time to test it out on a non-production host (or VMWare).
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Dru Lavigne's article is old, but still the best I've seen covering adding gmirror to an existing install.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
I've verified it works fine on 1.2, but haven't done extensive testing or had to swap a drive out yet.
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ok, thank you for that information. i'll have a look at it and tell if it worked fine for me.
regards, martin.