From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 12 16:43:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C968E16A418 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 798AC13C465 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 14038 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Aug 2007 16:43:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=P8XyFKMW74E1q/UnIyx3gcW4CDMZuQDMfOL0vf7iCYRLoewGFF+5wrx6OYnmmm91MbCbHBIZBNnpbptatxyUBqj99du+IJF52qX133fOTIpsuvTgIgUZWiXo2TDLdToa5I/loo+ilqtoGVDTfa45gBiWw7CKeqK0DX98JhGmvzQ=; X-YMail-OSG: MQjnrIEVM1lqtSBD62l1Yt54NoeJsPlZlpeaAZTa Received: from [84.141.110.96] by web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:43:13 PDT Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:43:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <830352.13839.qm@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: glabeled units as consumers? gstriping swap and /tmp? (was Re: graid5 or gvinums - bootable?) 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: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:43:16 -0000 --- Howard Goldstein wrote: > - Is it possible (does it even make sense?) to glabel the consumers and > specifying the appropriate bits of the resulting label as gmirror and > graid5 consumers? > Since graid5 already put meta data into the last sector of each of its consumers, a glabel is not necessary... I think glabel makes more sense, when u use it in /etc/fstab... > - How are you all handling the swap slice? (gstriping?) > For fail safety reasons: graid5 in 2-disk-mode... :-)) > - Is /tmp a good candidate for gstriping as well? Assuming everything > I've put in there is ephemeral anway. > RAID1, too... At least the box wont crash then, when a disk starts burning... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting