Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:28:33 +0100 From: "Hansa" <mythtv@logic-q.nl> To: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>, "freebsd geom" <freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do I gmirror slices? Message-ID: <LHEFLGAENILPPDJIHADOIEJKCFAA.mythtv@logic-q.nl> In-Reply-To: <901910.12288.qm@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> > So I have to tell the bootmgr where it is located. Don't I? > > > Hmm... I dont think so... There is the first sector of the disk, > that is read > by the BIOS, then there are 8KB somewhere at a fixed position > outside the file > system... And I think those 8KB are already able to > understand/read UFS... :-) Thats easy. Cool! > > gstripe or gconcat? Which of those is the better choice? > > > Depends... gstripe has better performance, if it can issue > requests for all > disks... But gconcat can use the full space of disks of non-equal > size (minus > one sector per disk for meta data of course)... I want to use the remainder of the mirrored drives for striping, so I guess gconcat is the better choice. Also since all data on it will be read/written via the network interface (100Mb) performance won't be much of an issue. Thanks again. -Hansa
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