Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:21:54 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Christophe Branchereau <chris.branch@gmx.de>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about gconcat Message-ID: <29476.3747.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <45BB80C8.1090406@gmx.de>
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--- Christophe Branchereau <chris.branch@gmx.de> 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
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