Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:05:01 -0500 From: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gmirror / gstripe Message-ID: <C94A9226-8E8B-11D9-AE49-000A95D73348@hedron.org> In-Reply-To: <422B7C4A.4060600@cloudview.com>
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On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55 PM, John Pettitt wrote: > > I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives > using > gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. > > Questions: > > 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? I haven't done this on FreeBSD or with USB drives (but have on Solaris with SCSI). Make sure all your USB drives always show up as the same device (in /dev) or you may wind up corrupting your system. > 2) Stripe then mirror right? (or mirror then stripe? Does it matter?) That is the way I've always done it but I don't see any reason not to do it the other way. Just remember how you did it should you need to recover. > > (I already have a 600gb stripe set on this machine made out of two > 300gb > drives) > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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