From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 13:27:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3526516A40F; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xenophon@irtnog.org) Received: from mx1.irtnog.org (24-123-13-51.irtnog.org [24.123.13.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CDB13C441; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xenophon@irtnog.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.irtnog.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FF9114C2; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:08:10 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at irtnog.org Received: from mx1.irtnog.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cinep010bsdmx.irtnog.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MiXwham2Kyfk; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:08:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from irtnog.org (svr1.irtnog.org [10.63.0.100]) by mx1.irtnog.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8308114B0; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:08:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:08:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: gmirror disks vs partitions thread-index: Acc6LBJEiqkdBg8xRn+XxrMs5f5oSQAAlUkg References: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 From: "Matthew X. Economou" To: , Cc: Subject: RE: gmirror disks vs partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:57 -0000 > Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied > during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to > using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring? Joe, Partition-level software RAID plus LVM is how the following Slashdot poster manages extendable (and inequally sized disk) arrays on Linux: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3D169386&cid=3D14117414 Best wishes, Matthew --=20 "Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery." - A. C. Hobbs in _Locks and Safes_ (1853)