From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 1 16:04:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC02106566B for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gausus@gausus.net) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22238FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so131000fxm.43 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:04:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.80.23 with SMTP id h23mr3062265mul.88.1251821052633; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:04:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <061541E3-F301-46C4-8ECB-5B05854F0EAA@exscape.org> References: <061541E3-F301-46C4-8ECB-5B05854F0EAA@exscape.org> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:04:12 +0200 Message-ID: From: Maciej Jan Broniarz To: Thomas Backman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs on gmirror slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:04:14 -0000 2009/9/1 Thomas Backman : > On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with gmirror, but it'd be a way better idea to mirror it > using ZFS if possible - that way you get self-healing and stuff like that, > which you won't if ZFS doesn't have a mirror/RAIDZ setup, but only sees a > single slice. > I would like to do so. I have to disks (ad4 and ad5). Is it possible to create two slices on both disks (eg ad4s1 and ad4s2 for ad4). Then to create gmirror on ad4s1, install freebsd on it so it would boot from it. Then, after having my system running to create zfs mirror from ad4s2 and ad5s2? mjb -- [ -----< Maciej Jan Broniarz || gausus@gausus.net >------ ] | Siamo qui \ sotto la stessa luce \ sotto la sua croce \ | | cantando ad una voce \ E l'Emmanuel Emmanuel, Emmanuel, | [ ---------------< E l'Emmanuel, Emmanuel >-------------- ]