From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 17:21:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCCC16A488 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F1D013C46B for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 10857 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Jan 2007 17:21:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=NpZEeIkt1WU873n3sq1C9U6+CG1uuuc35tvIgKP8MatlZDtIuMQow3YBfAlx0ETRhWMtT09R9iXLsmd9Z24RgYOkoqyo+gXK/6f6vA9QAa674HqUB6d4M+YALb5UBBAQgh4Ia29ZtjeUujPxj1ZArVBIDHfiQYfV8OOibFNNgdQ=; X-YMail-OSG: Ifg24sUVM1mT8tlMVoQUysV_g47Y7f6aPhfXe4G7wYsNGTQjgvGhQTfN0abseDdlhPyAOuXlslb_vFT3X5XfsX9dTNWTlNtip.pNnbytiAvqizsUl9CRzRJyuNr62_BjmaLCq3aNp8Tgx00- Received: from [213.54.8.47] by web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:21:54 PST Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:21:54 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" To: Christophe Branchereau , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45BB80C8.1090406@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <29476.3747.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Two questions about gconcat 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: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:56 -0000 --- Christophe Branchereau wrote: > First question is, the system is very slow to start. From what I can see > on the console, it first stops for a while after an "2nd cpu launched !" > message (I know, that doesn't belong to this list) and it halts again > for a while launching gconcat, the floppy drive making weird noises. > Hmmm, I didn't concat my floppy drive... any thoughts ? > I built a customized kernel without floppy disk driver, so that the floppy disk drive is not checked by GEOM for any meta data... > Second question is, if one of the two disks fails, will I be able to > retreive what is on the other disk ? I mean, is there still a "normal" > UFS system on it that I will be able to mount or would be everything > lost ? I would then rather mount the second disk in /usr/home/compaq or > something... > Most likely not, because UFS likes to spread big files over its whole area, so that at least party of ur big files will be gone... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091