Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:14:11 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD8.2 server install. Message-ID: <20110620191411.bdbe54d6.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com> References: <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:01:18 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > 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? There is ccd - "Concatenated Disk drive"; see "man ccd" for details. Also see the chapters in the Handbook: The Vinum Volume Manager http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html RAID http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html Those might be informative and inspiring. > **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. One thing is to use gstripe and gmirror, other is ZFS (but your machine should be _good_ to actually make use of it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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