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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>
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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something like unionfs but from the man page it looks very old, out of date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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