FreeBSD 7.1, Intel D945GCLF2 (Atom MB) and software RAID 1
Neil Bradley
I'm building a FreeBSD 7.1 machine that consists of the following:
* Intel D945GCFL2 (Atom 330) motherboard w/2GB of memory
* Intel Pro/1000 ethernet controller (PCI)
* One parallel IDE 64MB solid state hard drive (aka boot drive!)
* Two 1.5TB SATA drives
Eventually I want the 1.5TB SATA drives to be in a RAID 1 configuration
but have the OS boot off the SSD. No worries - software RAID, for this
application, is absolutely perfect, and I don't have any more slots in
which to put in a hardware RAID controller.
Now... my question relates to the order of operations I need to do to
get this configuration working. I want the swap, /usr, and /var mount
points out on the SATA drives since they're written to almost
constantly. The question is, how do I properly set up this configuration
during the install process?
If read things correctly, I should install the SSD and one of the 1.5TB
drives, create partitions for swap, /usr, and /var on the 1.5TB drive,
and after everything is installed, I can use gmirror to add the second
RAID 1 (mirrored) drive to the first as outlined here:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/gmirror.php
Are there any gotchas or do I have the right idea?
I've deployed a couple of FreeBSD 7.1 systems on the Atom motherboard
and really, REALLY like it.
Thanks!
-->Neil
Neil Bradley
For those who have looked at this and are interested, the above is
exactly what I did and the system has been deployed for a week now with
no issues.
-->Neil