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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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBqkxu09WjGjvKU74RAu8EAJsGrG8380czle5sRJifyZSATEus+gCfVP2/ TzPHJKIMK+Q2C0uvptQjW20= =65G5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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