From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 08:32:16 2008 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 401421065671 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:32:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from harry@yewbarrow.net) Received: from vm.yewbarrow.net (vm.yewbarrow.net [80.68.91.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF0A8FC15 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from harry@yewbarrow.net) Received: by vm.yewbarrow.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EDFB51D802B; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:12:21 +0000 (GMT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: HN Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:12:21 +0000 Message-ID: <87lk545ggq.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: gmirror + glabel + gjournal and 7.0 installation 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: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:32:16 -0000 I'm about to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a machine with two equal sized disks. I'd like to mirror these with gmirror and I think also I want to use glabel to make things easier if (when !) one of the disks fails and I replace it. I'm proposing to gmirror a slice and put the partitions on the gmirror'ed slice. I think I'd like to use gjournal as well. Not entirely clear in my mind how to do this. I've got: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ for the mirroring, but don't have a grasp of how glabel and gjournal fit into this. Can I do this with sysinstall (should I ?) and what order should I be adding things in ? Can I switch the journalling on and off after it's been set up ? Any thing I should look out for ? Thanks