From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 13:32:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEDF16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:32:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A4E43DA4 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:32:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 10586 invoked from network); 19 May 2005 13:32:32 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 May 2005 13:32:32 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 79BBD2E; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com References: <428BA59C.9020804@donnacha.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 May 2005 09:32:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <428BA59C.9020804@donnacha.com> Message-ID: <44ll6be3yo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:32:33 -0000 freebsd.org@donnacha.com writes: > Hi, another HDD question: > > If you are getting a hosting center to set up a server with two HDDs, > and if the 2nd HDD has a /mirror partition the same size as the 1st > HDD, do the guys doing the install need to denote the /mirror > partition as being a particular type of partition i.e. in the same way > that swap is a particular type of partition. > > I was originally planning on simply having a normal partition called > /mirror created and left empty for a few weeks until I'd learnt more > and was able to choose between vinum, gvinum, gmirror or whatever but, > if that empty partition needs to be of a certain type, I need to let > them know. > > The key problem, as ever, is that I will only have cmd-line access to > the server. You shouldn't need to pre-label the partition. However, I would *strongly* recommend getting an extra machine to experiment with locally before depending on mirror capabilities. In particular, don't even bother setting up a mirror unless you've tested the changeover *before* you need it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/