Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:43:26 +0000 From: John Hawkes-Reed <hirez@libeljournal.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? Message-ID: <200603031043.26348.hirez@libeljournal.com> In-Reply-To: <4407B194.5050609@rogers.com> References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <200603022333.52835.joao@matik.com.br> <4407B194.5050609@rogers.com>
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On Friday 03 March 2006 03:01, Mike Jakubik wrote: > JoaoBR wrote: > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:59, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> Thats what i figured. Its sad that the fbsd installer is so behind the > >> linux ones, in terms of setting up raid and lvm during install. > > > > I'm sorry that such things make you sad but do you mind to explain why > > this is "behind" ? > > Because most Linux distributions have had this feature for a while now. > It's no secret that our installer blows. It gets the job done for a > basic install, provided you know its quirks, and thats it. Hm. I don't believe that's true. In the last couple of months, I've had=20 occasion to attempt installation of Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and FreeBSD the= =20 same box. (And HP-UX and Solaris on different ones slightly less recently) Gentoo was dreadful. Dumping a user at a command prompt may appeal to the=20 geek-machismo types, but not I think to anyone who has to work for a living= =2E=20 CDROM -> trash. Ubuntu uses/used the Debian installer. Debian I've got used to. (In that it's filled with gotchas, so it takes a=20 couple of false starts to get a useful system.) Yes, it's got alleged RAID and LVM options in the disk-setup menus. However= ,=20 I've never been able to make them work. I'd rather things were absent from = an=20 installer, rather than there being tantalising options that raise false hop= e. =46rom what I remember, the Solaris installer is fairly pretty and works we= ll,=20 while the HP example is somewhat messy. The mirroring instructions for both= =20 those OSes assumed you'd a working system first. Mind, a GEOM-aware installer is an attactive WIBNI... I'm also not sure that the onward march of disk-size is strictly relevant.= =20 Were I building a PC-based RAID, I'd make sure I bought an=20 appropriately-sized spare disk at the same time as the rest of the set. =2D-=20 JH-R
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