Brian Buhrow writes:
> 	Hello Greg.  Thanks for the explanation.  Now, I have what probably wil
> l
> seem like a silly question.  Having been bitten once, we are going to put
> the root onto a raid 1 set.  Once the raid is configured and set to
> autoconfigure mode, do I need to move the file /etc/raid1.conf out of the
> way so that the rc scripts won't try to configure an already configured
> array? 

No.  In fact, you (currently) want it there so that /etc/rc.d/raidframe
will do the parity rebuilds if necessary.  (Of course it'll complain when it 
tries to configure it after it's been autoconfiged, but that's a different
issue.)

> Also, since my big array is already raid0, is there any reason why
> the root can't be raid1?

None at all.

Later...

Greg Oster