From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 13:08:25 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 8445416A41B for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:08:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4F313C457 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:08:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so417583rvb for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:08:24 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=yQUU3Oaj7vHBrpTx5E2VRA0niUAktL412xEFnkglP18=; b=NX8clEBR6Bq5nzy7Oj1srNfO8TV3DHfd2U6E75NXstzou+A76rmopQh3+ZxpNBZEHLzN9hyTF30Q0UVPr/i88Ifh56IS2QQ/xJ0QaE3K36qXIGtIZyMTeg7grPgk7vhlk8D9zaufSMtl32d8kGDpfhHIACWiqgD7v4cjVKhgkEk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GQ58+qQyA9qElfhdBpqE1tRUG3XJOk5sXiTa78M/nc9MWSxfY8vtBvlqCBd6qsnOnn+idgv3JXzUi1Z8AbWvCSVF9dF9U0C6ylH80yAXiowSHRO0MieukBV986p49X42x0pFsBkuYD8g3lWqHMn24L6UDjaLzVGAG+Rl/aYyXxI= Received: by 10.141.133.14 with SMTP id k14mr714637rvn.1189170504602; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.77.8 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50709070608l4df502e6m543e78d7c635201e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:08:24 +0200 From: "n j" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200709070831.43988.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <92bcbda50709070443p796d075jc91fea5372420fc6@mail.gmail.com> <200709070831.43988.lists@jnielsen.net> Subject: Re: 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 13:08:25 -0000 John, thank you very much for your detailed input. > If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering > your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install > everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical partition > on the second disk and set up gmirror between the two (see below). This > volume would house either the entire OS or just the root partition at your > option, but it needs to be large enough to house at least a minimal install > of the OS temporarily. I'd then create additional partitions using the > remaining space on each disk and turn those into a new, blank gstripe > volume. If you don't want the whole OS on your mirror, you could then > move /usr, etc over to the stripe volume (but you don't have to). That's basically the answer I got in the meantime from a few of my more experienced colleagues as well. So, I'll probably go with that option and create a 512Mb root partition on the first disk, install the OS, create a gmirror and add the second disk to the mirror, build the RAID-1 array, then gstripe the rest and move /usr, /tmp, /var to it etc. On a side note, it would be nice if creating RAID arrays was included in the FreeBSD install similar to Debian install (according to my colleague, haven't seen it myself). Regards, -- Nino