If you’re a little rusty on software raid, as I have been spoiled by hardware raid for some time, good documentation on newer methods can be a little hard to find. Take the FreeBSD handbook entry on the subject for example. It is poorly written and highly specific.
For a simple whole root disk mirroring walkthrough, this is a very good guide. It even has some laughs at the bottom in the comments where helpless newbs are dorking around with FreeBSD. Notably, FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, which is the most recent release of the stable branch of FreeBSD
I don’t even tell people who don’t have years of compiling linux kernels under their belt about FreeBSD, because if I do, they invariably want to install it and call me day and night with RTFMable questions.
Know what I mean? Yes. I’m sure you’ve been there before.
A novel example of some of the rampant plagiarism in blogs can be seen here, though they do correct the clobbering line to /boot/loader.conf that, for the uninitiated, will clobber (as in erase the contents and replace it with the echoed text) any previous configuration you had there.
All I have to do now is order some spare SATA drives for when Bad Things Happen, and I won’t have to think about it for a while besides occasional updates and when I’m actually being productive.
Getting more done. That is why I like FreeBSD for my personal projects.
