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Anonymous
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Posted on 6 July 2007 @ 06:15

Hi enlightenment i hope you can help me.

I read you're using the TNG version of geom_raid5, but where can i find it? Also, are there packages or binaries so i can install geom_raid5 without recompiling my kernel?

I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 i386 and have 6 harddrives, i'd like to use geom_raid5 on them. Thanks for your time! $:\)$

Enlightenment
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Posted on 7 July 2007 @ 04:17

edited 04:19

TNG (The Next Generation), the new version of geom_raid5 is available here:

http://home.tiscali.de/cmdr_faako/geom_raid5-eff.tbz

To install follow the following commands:

cd /usr/src fetch http://home.tiscali.de/cmdr_faako/geom_raid5-eff.tbz tar xvfz geom_raid5-eff.tbz cd /usr/src/sys/modules/geom/geom_raid5 && make clean depend all install mkdir -p /usr/include/geom/raid5 cp -p /usr/src/sys/geom/raid5/g_raid5.h /usr/include/geom/raid5/g_raid5.h cd /usr/src/sbin/geom/class/raid5 && make depend && make && make install

Know that TNG has not had the testing the stable version had, and may therefore still have bugs. But it should work fine. $:\)$

There are no packages yet (working on that). But you do not have to recompile your kernel. Just compile the kernel module and some other things, the commands above will do this for you. You might need a proper populated /usr/src.