From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 09:25:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6525B16A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@biaix.org) Received: from grummit.biaix.org (86.Red-213-97-212.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.97.212.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF8C343D70 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@biaix.org) Received: (qmail 1324 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jan 2006 09:21:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:21:52 +0100 From: Joan Picanyol i Puig To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, le@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060116092151.GA99286@grummit.biaix.org> References: <20060113213151.GA49805@grummit.biaix.org> <20060113214941.GB9258@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060113214941.GB9258@ratchet.nebcorp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Subject: Re: sorely missing gvinum start or attach 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: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:10 -0000 Hi there, Thanks for your expression of interest; given the length of my request I realize some introduction was necessary. * Danny Howard [20060113 22:46]: > Could you describe what you are trying to accomplish? I'd like both stripes and mirrors, and more than 8 partitions. What I've provided so far is just the base system's setup: mostly mirrored volumes but already one striped volume. Many more should come, and possibly new disks too. I opted for gvinum because of it's flexibilty, and decided to create the setup on one disk first to get the "root-on-vinum" issue working and to be able to do some testing (adding and removing drives). > You're adding a second disk to the system and you want a RAID of some > sort ... what kind of RAID? A mirror? Those are super easy ... just > Google up a "gmirror howto" ... Yep, I know about rse@'s HOWTO. > if you are trying to do something more complicated, please explain > that, as it would help people understand all your technical stuff. I hope my requirements are clearer now: I want a flexible software RAID system on FreeBSD, since I envision the need for many (~20) fs's with different storage requirements. I realize Lukas might not have as much free time as he'd wish, but an ETA on 'start', 'stop' and 'attach' would be greatly appreciated. tks -- pica