Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 16:57:54 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, fs@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Subject: Re: New option for newfs(3) to make life with GEOM easier Message-ID: <20070901165544.H14738@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070901122913.GE54895@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20070901074803.GM85633@comp.chem.msu.su> <3842.1188634387@critter.freebsd.dk> <20070901092310.GO85633@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070901093035.GA18069@harmless.hu> <20070901122913.GE54895@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Bernd Walter wrote: BW> > > In some scenarios, it can be desirable to newfs first, geom later. BW> > True, done it many time myself. Since sysinstall doesn't allow you BW> > to install onto a gmirror array, many install via sysinstall, and gmirror BW> > the system afterwards, which is exactly this situation. BW> BW> Sysinstall easily allows you to not partition the last few sectors. BW> The newfs option is only usefull if you are mirroring at fs level, BW> which is note quite common for system disks, where you really need BW> partitions. I concur, as all servers (rather entry-level, yeah; and excluding these that have large storage) we deploy last 2 years have two SATA disks with mirrored file systems. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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