Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:22:12 +0200 From: Rudi Kramer <rudi.kramer@gmail.com> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing Message-ID: <CAJrXP6NB9H7JPwjNOz32L5JmDpMW3mfQGL4wJYXH_SJ5kTcuPw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> References: <CAJrXP6PwVd%2Bth8crz18K0hODUtUtRMLh_VJFpPZ=Btp3NBYMEg@mail.gmail.com> <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org>
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On 19 June 2012 15:10, <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote: > > > You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across multiple > disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire filesystem, > right? > > To avoid this you need either mirroring or one of the other forms of raid. > > What's the issue with raid? > Crap I thought that I would just lose the information on that drive and not the entire volume :/ I dont have any issues with raid but I want to maximise my storage and I dont really care if I lose the data. It would just be nice if I didn't loose everything cause of one disk dying. Maybe I should be looking at something like unionfs but from the man page it looks very old, out of date and slightly dangerous. All the things I like in cheese but not in file systems. Rudi
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