Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

TJ Varghese tj at tjvarghese.com
Wed Nov 12 22:08:54 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi
<lenzi at k1.com.br>wrote:

> Hello
>
> <snip>
>
> the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid)
> on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use
> the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel
> is, in this manner, can detect problems with the drivers
> and so, can act on it....
> <snip>


Do not use RAID-0! What you want is JBOD and freebsd's software raid.
RAID-0 does striping over both drives...if one drive is dead you're screwed.


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