Subject: Re: Xen, VT, and RAID
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 12/22/2006 20:26:19
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:00:46PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I'm putting together a new server that will use RAIDframe for RAID-1 on
> two drives. I plan to run FreeBSD in an fdisk partition using the VT
> support in Xen 3. The question is what do I do about RAID and that
> partition?
>
> Once choice is to do nothing, and use the corresponding space on the
> second drive for something else. A second is to use FreeBSD's geom
> mirror on that part of both drives. I have no idea if that will work.
> A third choice -- is there a third choice?
Yes, use raidframe in dom0 and use the corresponding raid device for FreeBSD
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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