From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 12:08:17 2007 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 C250916A468 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA3D13C46C for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so407055rvb for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:08:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=crDLym7FAeL9jHZERk0g+617LWu60yPTde+e7fA32zY=; b=mU1T8nVNtOzxxO/ov/06Mmm34rs6FHDA3P6OMz9DoiRo1VjtTh1KU6qTav4EpNpADGKYNxup8BM0FKS8IS6yCsGBQQ1faeq5hfwsUMBnHO58WShlCe9ry42weX0FWHY+qYljMPbxu9SYkOx6ACwpyd8JPtzGtB8/n6SglMOxhb4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pGT93yCmQYxwLiiH70yZaI1xze9GY/gZsYpoSjzMrdC0RqgeuSmrJVBco6jxsXPgWo6UNfICgOG5XNk4mpVy63UJ/7WDE3GVYWKPfd4WgxCduJZz6xqhGic3QpDlAuOYKZQXWqOF661AyZhKRTwsUgkEBNRjpRBDKg9U7UCzFgI= Received: by 10.140.169.4 with SMTP id r4mr698197rve.1189165422417; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.77.8 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 04:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50709070443p796d075jc91fea5372420fc6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:43:42 +0200 From: "n j" To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Gstripe during install 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, 07 Sep 2007 12:08:17 -0000 Hello, I have a machine which has 2 (identical) hard disks. I would like to create RAID-0 GEOM stripe (gstripe(8)) to merge these 2 disks into 1 disk with larger capacity and install FreeBSD on it. There is this article (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html) which shows how to setup RAID-1 gmirror during install suggesting that what I'm trying to accomplish is possible. However, I haven't found any pointers to doing same with gstripe. If anyone knows how to do this and if it's possible at all, please share. On the other hand, if setting up gstripe during install is not possible, is it possible to install FreeBSD on one disk and later setup the gstripe to use the entire capacity? Or, since performance is not a key issue here, maybe use gconcat? Any input is appreciated! -- Nino