Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:19:55 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices + stripes and mirrors Message-ID: <20060517171955.GB838@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <200605161555.08195.darcy@wavefire.com> References: <200605161555.08195.darcy@wavefire.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:55:07PM -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: +> +> I have a 6.1 setup with 4 identical 300GB disks, ad4,6,8,10. I'd like to +> create a bootable mirror (gm0s1) of all 4 disks on a 512MB slice, and have +> the remaining space a big slice (gs0s2). I've tried several different things +> using the docs found @ http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ as a guide, +> with little luck, what I usually end up with an invalid partition table, or +> no boot device error when I reboot. I think the key is somehow in how the +> slices are created on the original (ad4) disk. +> +> If someone could provide me with some insight on how to accomplish this that +> would be very much usefull. +> +> +> [------------------ad4-----------------] +> [------ad4s1------][------ad4s2------] +> [--mirror/gm0s1--][--stripe/gs0s2--] +> +> [-----------------ad6------------------] +> [------ad6s1------][------ad6s2------] +> [--mirror/gm0s1--][--stripe/gs0s2--] +> +> [------------------ad8-----------------] +> [------ad8s1------][------ad8s2------] +> [--mirror/gm0s1--][--stripe/gs0s2--] +> +> [-----------------ad10-----------------] +> [------ad10s1-----][-----ad10s2-----] +> [--mirror/gm0s1--][--stripe/gs0s2--] Ok, first initialize your disks and create two slices on them: # apply "fdisk -Bi /dev/ad%1" 4 6 8 10 (If they are identical, you can probably initizlize one of them and copy first 63 sectors to the others.) Once you have your slices, create a mirror: # gmirror label -b round-robin gm0s1 /dev/ad{4,6,8,10}s1 And partition (needed for booting): # bsdlabel -wB /dev/mirror/gm0s1 Now, the root file system: # newfs /dev/mirror/gm0s1a Mount it and copy files there. Creating stripe is also easy: # gstripe label -s 16384 gs0s2 /dev/ad{4,6,8,10}s2 You can create file system directly on it: # newfs -U /dev/stripe/gs0s2 BTW. You may consider creating root file system only on a two-slices mirror and in addition create swap on a mirror built from the rest two slices. Good luck! -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEa1s7ForvXbEpPzQRAjXCAKDrybnn6oHoPNsoYHbhzM7uj5LzDQCgyLTj aHdtmTZZf2Hqb22BFYYAe60= =v01R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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