Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:52:01 -0400 From: Lee Dilkie <lee@dilkie.com> To: Rudi Kramer <rudi.kramer@gmail.com> Cc: kpneal@pobox.com, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing Message-ID: <4FE0AE31.20709@dilkie.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJrXP6NB9H7JPwjNOz32L5JmDpMW3mfQGL4wJYXH_SJ5kTcuPw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJrXP6PwVd%2Bth8crz18K0hODUtUtRMLh_VJFpPZ=Btp3NBYMEg@mail.gmail.com> <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> <CAJrXP6NB9H7JPwjNOz32L5JmDpMW3mfQGL4wJYXH_SJ5kTcuPw@mail.gmail.com>
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What I did to meet my needs of "growable but reliable" was to use a gconcat array of gmirrors. I never did add the second drives to the gmirror's so I never did get the reliability part of my dream. But at least you can create a gmirror with one drive and a gconcat of that. This was all before ZFS, which I think handles this better now (if it works). On 6/19/2012 11:22 AM, Rudi Kramer wrote: > 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 something like unionfs but from the man page it looks very old, out of date 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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