From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 4 10:48:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843CF16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:48:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D298443D45 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:48:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k24AmD1r063005; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 07:48:13 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 07:48:11 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <200603031840.19837.joao@matik.com.br> <4408FF66.1030401@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4408FF66.1030401@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603040748.11275.joao@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? 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: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:48:18 -0000 On Friday 03 March 2006 23:45, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I would certainly see the installer handling software RAID as a > considerable benefit. > > From what I've seen on the net, to install and boot off RAIDed system > disks is quite fiddly (maybe gmirror is the exception here, as I've > mainly been looking at striping). > > Cheers > > Mark geom changed this complications definitely, using gmirror or gstripe comman= ds=20 is easy as copying a file. Probably one of the most important things that=20 with vinum as example it was not possible to mirror a root partition but=20 since gmirror places the metadata different we can have now a mirrored and= =20 bootable root partition. Striping with ccd and vinum or mirroring was=20 certainly a pain even if it worked then stable and reliable. So in comparis= m=20 the easy use of geom is great and the people which developed geom did a=20 really fantastic job. Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br