Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:48:09 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, ticso@cicely.de, 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: <20070901134809.GF54895@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20070901165544.H14738@woozle.rinet.ru> 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> <20070901165544.H14738@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:57:54PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > 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. What is the big win if you mirror all partitions/filesystems and not the whole disk? -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de
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