From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 15:22:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B451E1065676 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rudi.kramer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2C08FC12 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhgm50 with SMTP id m50so5651324yhg.13 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:22:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=4dAKTsD/2N3ff5/FlXcoGFwb0NsDn6ERk1Mq7Xi3PHQ=; b=05L+8u/ticeEeBl70d6cpD5Xq014BRBiumJciUvV8F8s+Un0MyV/BOcxt0S89Vf/l3 uSi/Wu0N8i/zhGu3f+MEAjjdr55rPT+eOZuszgiEtCkqvFo+fjR8KlKSzUm/9LmEBxto RNrxGbmjhInebA+UChlk8xJCfOY8kIr2+TjvRUUrLcVxFMKbcg2ewXTsisyVT7m+0x+8 W7vEA+FETWFOmtTTJjjpNhtcRynRYtj/eFTlf+p+M+7zzGv79xVhzO/KfgzlvkXfQYRs rxsR7ONzlzxo6BJaHdEngbYku9GZ8xUklbS0+hOcfdasEHRssQYAeEMV2Mx9pCZ9yNOJ YApA== Received: by 10.60.2.138 with SMTP id 10mr20068000oeu.58.1340119353834; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:22:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.58.135 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:22:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> References: <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> From: Rudi Kramer Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:22:12 +0200 Message-ID: To: kpneal@pobox.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:22:34 -0000 On 19 June 2012 15:10, 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