From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 16:52:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE5C106564A for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lee@dilkie.com) Received: from data.snhdns.com (data.snhdns.com [208.76.82.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127238FC17 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.191.234.70] (port=32598 helo=[10.39.164.100]) by data.snhdns.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Sh1ep-0004pu-B4; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:51:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE0AE31.20709@dilkie.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:52:01 -0400 From: Lee Dilkie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rudi Kramer References: <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - data.snhdns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dilkie.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: kpneal@pobox.com, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:52:04 -0000 What I did to meet my needs of "growable but reliable" was to use a gconcat array of gmirrors. I never did add the second drives to the gmirror's so I never did get the reliability part of my dream. But at least you can create a gmirror with one drive and a gconcat of that. This was all before ZFS, which I think handles this better now (if it works). On 6/19/2012 11:22 AM, Rudi Kramer wrote: > On 19 June 2012 15:10, wrote: > >> >> You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across multiple >> disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire filesystem, >> right? >> >> To avoid this you need either mirroring or one of the other forms of raid. >> >> What's the issue with raid? >> > Crap I thought that I would just lose the information on that drive and not > the entire volume :/ > > I dont have any issues with raid but I want to maximise my storage and I > dont really care if I lose the data. It would just be nice if I didn't > loose everything cause of one disk dying. Maybe I should be looking at > something like unionfs but from the man page it looks very old, out of date > and slightly dangerous. All the things I like in cheese but not in file > systems. > > Rudi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"