From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 23:15:17 2005 Return-Path: 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 5D64116A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7D143D31 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:15:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 51136530C; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:15:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 6C9E15308 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:14:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C4C7B86E; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:14:41 +0100 (CET) To: geom@freebsd.org From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:14:40 +0100 Message-ID: <86y8dxiavz.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 Subject: getting a little carried away? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:15:17 -0000 this box has a RAID-1 array with a single slice containing six partitions: des@dwp ~% ls /dev/ar0* /dev/ar0 /dev/ar0s1a /dev/ar0s1c /dev/ar0s1e /dev/ar0s1g /dev/ar0s1 /dev/ar0s1b /dev/ar0s1d /dev/ar0s1f the components of ar0 are ad4 and ad6. I realize that a component in a RAID-1 array "tastes the same" to GEOM as a standalone disk, but I think this is a bit much, especially the adMcsN stuff: des@dwp ~% ls /dev/ad[46]* /dev/ad4 /dev/ad4cs1f /dev/ad4s1e /dev/ad6cs1c /dev/ad6s1b /dev/ad4a /dev/ad4cs1g /dev/ad4s1f /dev/ad6cs1d /dev/ad6s1c /dev/ad4b /dev/ad4d /dev/ad4s1g /dev/ad6cs1e /dev/ad6s1d /dev/ad4c /dev/ad4e /dev/ad6 /dev/ad6cs1f /dev/ad6s1e /dev/ad4cs1 /dev/ad4f /dev/ad6a /dev/ad6cs1g /dev/ad6s1f /dev/ad4cs1a /dev/ad4s1 /dev/ad6b /dev/ad6d /dev/ad6s1g /dev/ad4cs1b /dev/ad4s1a /dev/ad6c /dev/ad6e /dev/ad4cs1c /dev/ad4s1b /dev/ad6cs1 /dev/ad6f /dev/ad4cs1d /dev/ad4s1c /dev/ad6cs1a /dev/ad6s1 /dev/ad4cs1e /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad6cs1b /dev/ad6s1a is this normal? more to the point, is it desirable? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no