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From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:25:10 -0700
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote

> On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> > ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my
> > problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that
> > failed with 2 different approaches.
> > 
> > I'm accepting that ZFS is a too big thing for the i386 architecture
> > and I possibly should leave it alone on that machine.
> > 
> > But my 2nd try with gvinum failed also ...why?
> 
> I've had success using a combination of gstripe and gmirror to create a
> RAID10 over 4 drives:
> 
> % gstripe status
>       Name  Status  Components
> stripe/st0      UP  mirror/gm2
>                     mirror/gm1
> % gmirror status
>       Name    Status  Components
> mirror/gm2  COMPLETE  da0 (ACTIVE)
>                       da1 (ACTIVE)
> mirror/gm1  COMPLETE  da2 (ACTIVE)
>                       da3 (ACTIVE)
> 
> This is a separate data area though -- system boots from some different
> drives.  I can't remember if it is possible to boot from a gstripe.
While it hasn't been since around the beginning of 8. I can confirm
it's possible to boot from a gstripe(8).

--Chris
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew