Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:42:51 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror disks vs partitions Message-ID: <20070118234251.53fd7c8e@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660701171715k54f88b32gb7bd45364ed2505@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070D9E41@svr1.irtnog.org> <cb5206420701170603u176ee53creff1ecbc8a5f5fbd@mail.gmail.com> <d763ac660701171715k54f88b32gb7bd45364ed2505@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:15:56 +0900 "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] > > > > Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always > > expected to be present in software raid solutions. I > > hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom. > > That made my eyes bleed. > > Bring on ZFS and its method of managing JBODs. I second that. I have been way less than impressed with software raid and LVM on linux. I have all ways found not mirroring partitions to be way better. It makes it way easier to repair the damn thing do fewer steps. When ZFS comes available, I plan to actually run it across multiple mirrors. It has built in JBOD, but it does not do mirroring. It just does stripping.home | help
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