From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 3 19:31: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from exodus.ait.co.za (exodus.ait.co.za [66.8.26.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45D2537B417 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 19:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aragon [66.8.86.210] by exodus.ait.co.za (SMTPD32-4.06) id A654233F0146; Sat, 04 May 2002 04:30:28 0200 Message-ID: <006a01c1f313$f667cad0$01000001@aragon> From: "Aragon Gouveia" To: References: <20020503202045.J49181-100000@workhorse.imach.com> Subject: Re: vinum vs. ccd Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 04:32:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hiya, > > I have two drives of different size that I need to combine into one volume. > > As much as I'd love to do striping, I don't think this will be reliable (if > > at all possible) with drives of differing size. So I've opted on just doing > > a straight concatenation of them. > > ARe you sure you want to do this? You know if either drive fails, you're > screwed. > Have you considered making two filesystems and using creative symlinking > and/or mounting? Yea I do realise this. I have explored the option of multiple filesystems and/or symlinking, but it will just create inconveniences and wasted space. Fortunately if one of the drives does fail, the data lost is far from critical :-). Thanks for your input. Regards, Aragon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message