(no commit message)

diff --git a/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/index.mdwn b/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/index.mdwn
index 0fa7547..3ba55c4 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/index.mdwn
+++ b/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/index.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-[[!meta title="Easy Software RAID with DragonFly BSD and natacontrol(8)"]]
+[[!meta title="Easy Software RAID with DragonFly BSD"]]
+
+*** This Document is _still_ work in progress ***
 
 # Scenario
 I am running 2.11-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly 64Bit with i5 Core on an Intel® Server-Mainboard S1200BT with 8GB RAM.
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ I want to use dfBSD as our company fileserver for important backups. Also I foun
 
 ## Goal
 On an already running System I want to add a cheap inexpensive pool of disks keeping mission critical data.
-Failure tolerance is more important than speed.
+Failure tolerance is more important than speed. So here I will show you how easy it is to setup a software RAID with natacontrol(8).
 
 [[!toc  levels=3]]
 
@@ -79,7 +81,6 @@ You could also use the devattr command:
     devattr -d da\* # for example
 
 
-    
 # Chosing the right RAID
 You can look around in the intert for various Raid calculators 
 A very helpful page for general info is this one:
@@ -126,8 +127,25 @@ As I only have 4 1TB disks I think RAID0+1 is the best solution as mentioned abo
 Let's dive into real world practice:
 
 Just to be sure we don't overwrite the wrong disks we could list them again:
-    natacontrol create RAID10 128 ad8 ad10 ad12 ad14
+
+    # natacontrol create RAID10 128 ad14 ad12 ad10 ad8
+    ar0 created
 
 Interestingly RAID10 is accepted, I think it is just a synonym for RAID0+1.
-The 128 is the interleave I used - which should be reasonable for this kind of setup.
+The 128 is the interleave I used - which should be reasonable for this kind of setup. If you have not much space natacontrol will automatically adjust the stripe to a minor number (to 64KB a.e.)
+
+Let's check what happened and look into the logs.
+
+
+    # dmesg | tail
+    WARNING!! - not able to determine metadata format
+    WARNING!! - Using FreeBSD PseudoRAID metadata
+    If that is not what you want, use the BIOS to create the array
+    disk scheduler: set policy of ar1 to noop
+    ar1: 1907739MB <FreeBSD PseudoRAID RAID0+1 (stripe 128 KB)> status: READY
+    ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad8 at ata4-master
+    ar1: disk1 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master
+    ar1: disk2 READY (mirror) using ad12 at ata6-master
+    ar1: disk3 READY (mirror) using ad14 at ata7-master
 
+## Configuring the RAID