From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 15:50:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C0A1065676 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xi@borderworlds.dk) Received: from kazon.borderworlds.dk (kazon.borderworlds.dk [IPv6:2a01:4f8:101:4201::1:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780838FC0A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from borg.borderworlds.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kazon.borderworlds.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2175C5C3B for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:49:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F58D523.2070100@borderworlds.dk> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:49:55 +0100 From: Christian Laursen Organization: The Border Worlds User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120302 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and gmirror /geom raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:50:05 -0000 On 03/07/12 15:14, Davide D'Amico wrote: > Hi, I have a server DELL R210 with two sata drives: > ada0: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > ada1: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > > Previously (8.x) - when I didn't use a hw raid - I used to install > freebsd in a drive (i.e. ad4), boot from it and then: > > # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > # gmirror label -v -b round-robin data ad4 > # gmirror insert data ad6 > // Modification to /etc/fstab > // reboot > > How could accomplish to the same task with 9.0-RELEASE? I wrote a short howto about doing that. By following that you get a gmirror covering the whole disks with GPT partitioning inside. http://borderworlds.dk/notes/gmirror.html -- Christian Laursen