From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 10:08:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A3E106564A for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13A08FC1A for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.0.26] ([141.4.215.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MBWuQ-1RRTcl2g2I-00AypO; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:08:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4EE08CA8.1060506@brockmann-consult.de> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:08:40 +0100 From: Peter Maloney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <1323208265.19452.15.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:uxbSM/CZwMYGSIMn4EqBAAyYOC/16cJJJE+E/BjMAOh v9JAyEPQ+Wq8f/Y8OTbvEuLW/vhQj3LzF/548CWVsjVUCTJvVJ sV6uYJN5fA74ku1hUluwa/JmYgG/o81xMrvr+zh72OXWFeEpUi /kg9Ozd6fIBlGLVQAcvM4kTBhYCstzH+ikxDNQdEYErX7GPWsz QzcqN85P9bFywxcd/RWh4T+YBskALf6cDr9seQ3QdK7zMgEE4I UeIG+LQSYuj801I+c2NQTgyOxu6LXkcFYycVbys9QpCacaXvaT AHTFwJIHmHzaZhR6Qx7AwUTW2UM3w0w23bxrOJ4rWprSCFc8bI itHhiow+/0nzoUoU6zh8KdgBF6p5LjGeIfnJWqVXM Subject: Re: Dog Food X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:08:43 -0000 On 12/08/2011 09:35 AM, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:51:05 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: >> Was trying to use gmirror(4) or zfs(4) today to get a machine in the >> cluster setup with s/w raid and was completely flummoxed by the >> intricacies of manual setup. Chances are, I just am not smart enough to >> wind my way though the various how tos and wiki pages that I've been >> browsing to get the job done. > > Why using gmirror under zfs, when zfs itself supports software raid? > >> If someone wants to work on modifying bsdinstaller to do s/w raid via >> one of these mechanisms, clusteradm@ can provide you a two disk SATA >> machine that can be used for this purpose. >> >> Sean > And what problems did you run into? This guide worked for me: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror (but the "zfs create ..." part was too much typing, so I did it with a script that I added to the CD) -------------------------------------------- Peter Maloney Brockmann Consult Max-Planck-Str. 2 21502 Geesthacht Germany Tel: +49 4152 889 300 Fax: +49 4152 889 333 E-mail: peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de Internet: http://www.brockmann-consult.de --------------------------------------------