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      onkelbrigitte
      last edited by

      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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      • Cry HavokC
        Cry Havok
        last edited by

        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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        • dotdashD
          dotdash
          last edited by

          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.
          It is, as previously mentioned, not supported.

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            onkelbrigitte
            last edited by

            ok, thank you for that information. i'll have a look at it and tell if it worked fine for me.

            regards, martin.

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