From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 13:38:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B320016A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:38:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0EC43D75 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:38:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k26DceQc052636; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:38:40 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:38:33 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <200603040748.11275.joao@matik.com.br> <440A677B.7000308@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <440A677B.7000308@paradise.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603061038.34118.joao@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? 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: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:38:44 -0000 On Sunday 05 March 2006 01:22, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > JoaoBR wrote: > > geom changed this complications definitely, using gmirror or gstripe > > commands is easy as copying a file. > > >=20 > (Chuckles) - While I see your point, I see that Ralf E's article > discussing this very issue weighs in at about a page worth of > instructions for *each* of the two methods discussed. Now, sure, he's > being pedantically careful so no-one will misunderstand and murder their > systems - but ISTM that this is the sort of task that ideally an > installer could/should handle. > > The argument of 'its only a few commands...' does not really stand up - > as (for instance) it could be equally applied to that installer > providing package installation - and it seems to have that facility > (thankfully!). > good point, probably it is much easier as thought to integrate as script in= to=20 the installer where one can chose the disks/partitions to gmirror/gstripe=20 them and put it beside other options in "Startup Options" I never felt the need and probably would not use the option either and will= =20 configure my config manually later as I do with named or others > > So in comparism > > the easy use of geom is great and the people which developed geom did a > > really fantastic job. > > I agree, as the geom based applications are maturing, we are starting to > see that benefit of the geom infrastructure. > for me this happened already. I use gmirror for almost a year now and I=20 changed all vinum setups and I never had a serious problem with it. I have = to=20 say that I never tried IDE or SATA, only SCSI with Adaptec. Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br