From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 18:08:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C8216A41F for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tradigan@newrevolutions.net) Received: from newrevolutions.net (h-66-166-153-85.phlapafg.covad.net [66.166.153.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3E513C43E for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tradigan@newrevolutions.net) Received: (qmail 58027 invoked by uid 98); 24 May 2007 18:08:43 -0000 Received: from 66.166.153.85 by ns1.newrevolutions.net (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1946. spamassassin: 3.1.5. Clear:RC:0(66.166.153.85):SA:0(-1.5/5.0):. Processed in 2.239364 secs); 24 May 2007 18:08:43 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: tradigan@newrevolutions.net via ns1.newrevolutions.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:0(66.166.153.85):SA:0(-1.5/5.0):. Processed in 2.239364 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO www.newrevolutions.net) (tradigan@newrevolutions.net@66.166.153.85) by newrevolutions.net with SMTP; 24 May 2007 18:08:41 -0000 Received: from 208.40.168.12 (SquirrelMail authenticated user tradigan@newrevolutions.net) by www.newrevolutions.net with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <29548.208.40.168.12.1180030121.squirrel@www.newrevolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <200705241358.50929.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <4042.208.40.168.12.1180025016.squirrel@www.newrevolutions.net> <200705241358.50929.lists@jnielsen.net> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:41 -0400 (EDT) From: tradigan@newrevolutions.net To: "John Nielsen" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: tradigan@newrevolutions.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum and RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:08:10 -0000 Is it possible to use gmirror for a small partition on two disks and then use gstripe on the remaining disk space of those drives to create a larger stripe? I didn't think that was possible. I could be wrong however :). If that will work, that would be my best option right there. > On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:43:36 pm tradigan@newrevolutions.net wrote: >> Is it possible to use gvinum to create a striped array that contains the >> root partition? I want to be able to combine all 4 of the hard disks >> into >> one logical striped array and install the boot partition on it. I have >> found documentation on how to mirror the root drive, but none on using a >> striped array for the root drive. >> >> Is this possible? > > Not without hardware support, no. > > I would create a small (1-2 GB) root partition one two or more of the > drives > and mirror it with gmirror (or not.. you must not care about fault > tolerance > if you're setting up a giant stripe). You could maybe use the same 1-2GB > on > the other drives for swap or tmp space (optionally mirrored as well). Then > use the rest of the space on all the drives for your stripe array. I'd > recommend gstripe over gvinum for ease-of-use, but it's up to you. > > JN >