From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 02:32:01 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 8CDC616A417 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACC743D6E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:32:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 28598 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2006 12:31:59 +1000 Received: from 203-158-61-199.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.158.61.199) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 21 Sep 2006 12:31:59 +1000 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:31:55 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20060921123155.73a25912@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom - help ... 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: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:32:01 -0000 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:37:19 -0300 (ADT) "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > 'k, I'm used to vinum from back in 4.x days, but now running 6.x, am > looking at using geom ... and am not sure exactly what I can do ... > > Pointers to tutorials always appreciated ... > > Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but > that doesn't appear to be available right now, so, figure I'll go with a > RAID0+1 with hotspare configuration, if possible ... ? > > Now, trying to parse the geom man page(s), I'm not sure if the hotspare > option is even ... an option ... if it is, please point me to where I > should be looking for this ... > > So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do > something like: > > gstripe st1 da1 da2 > gstripe st2 da3 da4 > gmirror drive st1 st2 > newfs drive > > is this correct, or am I *totally* missing something here? > Can you boot off a stripped set ? You can from a mirror (but make sure you have geom_mirror available at boot time... i've got it built into the kenrel..and loader.conf just in case I somehow manage to boot generic .... ) Other than that, it looks ok to me. you may want to read http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-January/021638.html best, _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their purple dresses appear no more a dixative of housing nerves and sinews than when they hang suspended from their hooks" Mervin Peake, "Gormenghast", chap. 2, on the Earl's twin sisters I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.