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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:08:29 +0100
From:      Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mac@cs.hmc.edu
Subject:   Re: Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?
Message-ID:  <200411282308.46681.4711@chello.at>
In-Reply-To: <20041128194119.GB3673@turing.cs.hmc.edu>
References:  <20041128194119.GB3673@turing.cs.hmc.edu>

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On Sunday 28 November 2004 20:41, Mac Mason wrote:
> So, I have a pair of disks I'd like to put into a mirror with /usr on
> them; this is 5.3-RELEASE, so using vinum is out of the question.
>
> It looks to me like gstripe will do the trick;

If you want to run a mirror (raid1) w/o using gvinum, gmirror does the trick.  

> all that is necessary is 
> that the module get loaded before boot tries to mount /usr.
>
> Can this be done?

Yes! 'man 8 loader.conf' contains information on boot-time module loading.
An example - if you want geom_stripe.ko loading at boot-time just put the line 
'geom_stripe_load="YES"' into your /boot/loader.conf. 

> (I also have a concatenated pair I'd like to use for something else, but
>  it's not boot-critical, and I imagine answering one question answers both)
>
> Thanks!
>
>     --Mac

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