Howto do SW RAID?

[Olaf Greve]

Hi Pete,

 >None of those things are true anymore on the latest -STABLE and amd64.

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 >Given your system I'd acquire a 3rd drive (4 gig flash card will do)  
for
 >boot and then make a ZFS mirror our of the existing two and stick
 >everything significant onto that. It works very nicely indeed.

Alright, thanks for the extra input! Good to hear that the reported  
initial issues are now a thing of the past too.

Meanwhile... earlier today I made up my mind: it seemed to me that the  
gmirror way involved less steps to configure it, and I need to have  
the machine set-up in as little time as possible, between a million of  
other matters. Also, the machine that has the failed drive will in due  
time be used by me for experimenting with some things (a.o. using  
newer PHP and MySQL versions than I use at present too), and I shall  
keep the e-mails and links on this subject and conduct a test with it  
when I've got some more air in my schedule. It certainly sounds like a  
cool filesystem!

Then, as written above, in between matters I've set up the system  
using gmirror; it all worked very easily and I'm now at the level that  
I've set-up the ports tree, SSH access, etc. Tomorrow I'll reconstruct  
the rsync calls and DB syncing scripts etc. and then the machine  
should be go for acting as back-up machine while I'm abroad for a few  
weeks.

Thanks again to you guys for your help and ideas!

Cheers,
Olafo