Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:01:18 -0400 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: New FreeBSD8.2 server install. Message-ID: <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com>
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I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks
ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various
sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans
LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would
have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current
an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate
the drives into a software raid0 array?
**EDIT**
I postponed this mail and actually got significant answers from
freenode/##freebsd, more then I antisipated. gconcat is what I was
looking for above and in lieu of that, ZFS, which I would very much like
to utilize, I'm just not sure how to go about it with a hodge-podge
collection of disks:
1) 1x150GB PATA/EIDE drive
2) 2x80GB Drives (1 SATA, 1 PATA/EIDE)
3) 1x60GB PATA/EIDE drive
4) 2x40GB PATA/EIDE drives
The machine is a P4 Prescott, 2.6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU), like I
mentioned, I just don't know what to do and am looking for some
suggestions.
P.S. Currently, this machine is installed w/ the 150GB disk and I am
sitting at the Fixit prompt because I may whipe the drive and start over
with something else.
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