From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 06:58:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B633916A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:58:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C5843D46 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:58:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4271050C1F; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (bmn111.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.28.233.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0577F50C0C; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:57:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:57:51 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Adrian Wontroba Message-ID: <20051008065751.GC1000@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20051006125233.754dd00e.josh@oplink.net> <86r7aywju7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051006200802.GL564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051006201616.GE26614@garage.freebsd.pl> <20051006202700.GM564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051008023521.D55180@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051008023521.D55180@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng devel (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support 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: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:58:05 -0000 --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:35:21AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: +> The end result looks like: +>=20 +> bash-2.05b# gmirror status +> Name Status Components +> mirror/gm0 COMPLETE ad4a +> ad6a +> ad8a +> ad10a Isn't that waste of space? I see your /var/ file system is the same size as / file system, so creating two mirrors (ad4a+ad6a) for / and (ad8a+ad10a) for /var/ will save you some space. +> I set the system up with a Makefile and some initial disk labels +> (below my sig) and lots of trial and error, executing make zap, make +> label_disks, etc. No doubt less than perfect, but it worked for me. +>=20 +> At work, I've developed a makefile based version of RSE's "single disk +> to two disk" approach. If there is any interest, I'll ask my boss if I +> can release it. Nice idea, but I think at this point it is too much specific for you configuration. It'd be much useful when it will be more general somehow. +> Is anybody doing anything about: +> Making systinstall GEOM aware? Yes, Craig Rodrigues (rodrigc@) is working on it. +> Putting RSE's excellent instructions in the handbook? Not sure about this one. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDR23vForvXbEpPzQRAs6OAJ4j+0Moq7qmbZECS/uvPEiHSe5T3wCeIZn1 caNMEectxQMcq6hg+VVVJZc= =qA2S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qtZFehHsKgwS5rPz--