From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 24 12:14:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CDE106568B for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dharma66@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83208FC0A for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d14so711492and.13 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:14:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i32UJT9HO7I++ZQJrg8xdnSmAX03UeLNcVF1FwXSjvU=; b=lef4uTT41AMtni+vGESP5KDtUkeyzyHtaofoLzHC9c/JVQBI/Z2YyFeXSzyBoN4yGn dVYOxOtnL6e7JuvCPJ6UTrR55LbYXXBcAvWE2afvfDeEwOJ/Up8yszHGYOsIoLydmab3 iOptLAkndTYTDuwoLf/Tt7HjSk3HOjDgaof5s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=i6KvWL2M5eFOlyOwxtYW7fpkUrIorOpmJI+emoXzlvsxScn6HoqC7qK0/pMA9HjSs0 +1tj+gmixmlOv7guT4mM07lOx39hVJIOBcNajqUZFpzyj8AbHHpIkqxh/DkR9gpOlQ6b FSHrNQw5hWYsck340TqXBcp7N+AV3bxLMiUXw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.33.5 with SMTP id l5mr4420384anj.44.1251116064110; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:14:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Lewis Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:14:04 +0100 Message-ID: <55fa7b3a0908240514g5c0ec568m41a542333ceee961@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: RAID10 setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:25 -0000 Thanks to both of you for the encouraging words. I'm going to do little mor= e reading and schedule some time probably on Wednesday to give this a go. I'll feel a lot more conformable for your responses! Cheers Phil > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:30:52 -0400 > From: John Nielsen > Subject: Re: RAID10 setup > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Phil Lewis > Message-ID: <200908232330.53118.lists@jnielsen.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; =A0charset=3D"iso-8859-1" > > You're on the right track, additional comments inline. > ... > > You seem to be pretty well on track. It seems you've already parsed the > gstripe and gmirror man pages. You should probably look at fdisk(8) and > bsdlabel(8) as well in case sysinstall doesn't tie up all your loose ... > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:53:45 +0100 > From: chris scott > Subject: Re: RAID10 setup > To: John Nielsen > Cc: Phil Lewis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1 > ... > When you create the file systems you should =A0also consider laying gjour= nal > on top of the stripe as well. In most cases it will remove the need for > having to fsck the file systems when there's a system crash. Quite useful= if > the filesystem is large. > > I also like the label the filesystems with glabel so they appear in the > fstab as > > /dev/ufs/root > /dev/ufs/usr > /dev/ufs/var > > etc > > makes life a little easier >