A long time ago I had to install a new ftp server. I chose FreeBSD having in mind past experience with a crash of a squid proxy sever.

After the motherboard of the proxy server crashed, I moved the NIC (Intel based kernel, compiled with “options DEVICE_POLLING”) and the HDD to a new system). I was amazed that no other actions were required…

So, I have installed FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and setup pure-ftpd. A few days ago I had to do a little bit of work at the hardware and setup a new RAID1 array for two of its disks.

Beacuse it is so simple, I just want point it out here:

Step 1 (“mark the master” disk):

# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0Metadata value stored on /dev/ad0

Step 2 (force load of gmirror module):

# echo geom_mirror_load="YES" >> /boot/loader.conf (please note the ">>")

Step 3 (modify /etc/fstab):

/dev/ad0s1a becomes /dev/mirror/gm0s1a

Step 4 (reboot):

# reboot

Step 5 (instert the second disk):

# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad1
Hit gmirror status to check if it’s ok…

Easy! Isn’t it?

no posts for a long time… i’m too fscking busy, no TTL…
but because i’mto bored, here are some useful info on how to:

Add extra disks space in freebsd

buy another pair of 500gb disks
stick them into your server
build a hardware raid1
boot freebsd
mount /dev/ar1s1d on /files/hdd2
edit /etc/fstab
happy users…

Add extra disks space in freebsd (how a bored admin will do it):

buy two big disks for raid1 mirroring
stick them into the fscking old server
boot freebsd
read all article at the following link
read it again (allways helps)
# gmirror list|less
Geom name: gm0
State: COMPLETE
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 1247150714
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w1e2
Consumers:
1. Name: ad2
Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w1e1
State: ACTIVE
Priority: 0
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 376482481
2. Name: ad3
Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w1e1
State: ACTIVE
Priority: 0
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 985518569

users will never thank you