From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 00:52:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488F116A420 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C850913C45B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so3976876fgg.35 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:52:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Mq1as14Fs/iwHVmC+BZszlKptbeq7Tc9Ak0k3GEUfSg=; b=b3hBtRV6wRnD87vnAp8VhwU8W875xSs5IwnVVR99Pt+KqTH3S75YvDLJAl8kkdVCUrQB6T9WiT+8OzeHt7OR4Lt+aPkjTpZ6abj5igEGBL1NVw23rLITNN7CyTOqLrT/fOoymRCj4vAkH8I7EfMakLa6LkC4VSuS8+htwy4QTfQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=p7UWZHqQpRBNBHHnA6b5mQNv91wsz1FLrAK3vaCiZ1lwjLpwNUhOqX2zzugk2mt0X5rQqRYOsqMfW5Jx5NS0rCRxT18Iqhqoq3QVh/AJwg5B8A0nCYNnEUJvc/gPfyZhBd9AjSnds8ypy7gdyBEgqY0G+xgBB0oOsfGfPmiIvmE= Received: by 10.86.30.9 with SMTP id d9mr15036934fgd.16.1199321565786; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.68.13 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:52:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0801021652o45f821efkd5fb98fe56529f58@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:52:45 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: "Chris H." In-Reply-To: <20080102142444.0unir7afk800gss0@webmail.1command.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080102002651.r72jwx0pgk4000c8@webmail.1command.com> <20080102070518.ki0v7vxkgo0cossg@webmail.1command.com> <20080102111751.5huybrwosgs0ccos@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <20080102112230.g7p1bj3sdck488g8@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <20080102084743.xtecj951wogwws8w@webmail.1command.com> <20080102144706.6akwgph1s8s0k888@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <20080102142444.0unir7afk800gss0@webmail.1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:52:47 -0000 On 1/2/08, Chris H. wrote: > OK, in the final analysis I've decided (now that it's (7B4) installed...) > I'll just keep /boot, /root (and presumably /dev) on the already available > and running install disk (da3). > Then perform: > > # gstripe label -v -s 131072 bigstripe \ > /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 > > # newfs -U /dev/stripe/bigstripe > > # mkdir /bigstripe > > # mount /dev/stripe/bigstripe /bigstripe > > # echo 'geom_stripe_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf > > # echo '/dev/stripe/bigstripe /bigstripe ufs rw 2 2' >> /etc/fstab > > # cd /var > > # tar cf - . | (cd /bigstripe; tar xvf - > > and repeating the above two lines for > > /bin, /compat, /dist, /entropy, /etc, /lib, /libexec, > /media, /mnt, /proc, /rescue, /sbin, /sys, /tmp, and /usr > > moving and remaking /home. Then deleting and re-creating > the above (/bin, /compat, etc...). Then modify /etc/fstab > to read /dev/stripe/bigstripe / ufs rw 2 2 > > unmount /bigstripe > > mount / > > Done. Yes? > > Maybe I'm overestimating the FreeBSD file system. But this > seems plausible. > You could have / (root) also on /bigstripe, if you do something similar to the way that ZFSonRoot (http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot) is done. Scot