install NAS4Free onto raid disk or software raid

[lukinomt]

Hello,
i am trying to install NAS4free (latest version) onto a RAID1 virtual device of my ADAPTEC AR1430sa .
but in istalation i can see the two physical drives, not the virtual raid1 device i configured.

is there any way to install NAS4Free to such device?

or is there any way to install it onto software GEOM mirror?

thank you for any advice.
Lukas

[armandh]

yikes

I would not consider that
if you are having trouble getting it to work think how hard a failure recovery will be
the easiest failure recovery is the simplest

a simply held OS entirely separate from the data drives.
with out any proprietary hardware [raid]

more OS stuff more chance of failure

[raulfg3]

Nas4Free is NOT designed to work (boot) in a RAID 1 Disk, sorry, and in fact you don't need this level of security, because all info to boot is stored on config.xml, so you only need to save config, and do a fresh install in a new disk and restore config to have your system up and running ( true on embeded or full install that you don't add packages by hand), that is the 80% of install that I know.

For the rest , you only need to clone boot partition ( 384MB minimun to 1GB in my case) viewtopic.php?f=68&t=266&p=742&hilit=clone#p742

[lukinomt]

i just need to use RAID for my system disk... anything else is done by ZFS...

when one of your OS drives dies, isnt it perfect you can just replace it and care for nothing else? (assuming the RAID rebuild proces is handled by controller itself)

@raulfg3: thank you, i simply forgot that i can use Clonezilla... but you remember it to me

[armandh]

way too hard to recover from a failed hardware raid OS drives
if your hardware has a bios raid it could work
but you would need an identical board for a failure recovery
[bad idea]

with a single boot medium
the variables in the install are all in the configuration file and it is SMALL
usually under 20 kilobites [very very very small]

if you have a disk failure you could have a second ready to go
needing only a config update [or not if there have been no changes]

I use the embedded, and there fore
if my boot medium failed [and I use industrial grade SATA and PATA flash drives]
I would reload the OS to a new one set the NIC and IP, then restore the config, DONE

Free BSD works a lot like Linux in that it is portable
that is to say, rebuilds the hardware profile at each boot.
such portability is an obviously bad idea if you are selling the operating system
such portability is not found in MS products

with such ease of portability what you suggest is more likely to add to the difficulty rather than ease the recovery
you are much better served with a saved down load of the config at one or more client computers
as opposed to a redundant boot drive mirror for the retention of the configuration