Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:43:59 -0500 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: gmirror Issues Message-ID: <1174880639.6259.11.camel@ingress> In-Reply-To: <4607100B.5050807@zircon.seattle.wa.us> References: <4606E163.9000506@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <eu6qvc$ja7$1@sea.gmane.org> <4607100B.5050807@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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> The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to > take two brand new disk drives and mirror them. You're right. This is a tutorial. > Nothing in the > documentation discusses this. The in-tree documentation explains the syntax of the admin commands and the technical aspects of the subsystem. > Do you have to create file systems on the > drives first? No you use the raw devices. > Do you have to use fdisk to slice them up? You can do that. It is not required. > Is there a size limit on drives? The size limit would be file-system related; not gmirror. You're pretty safe into the terabytes with UFS2 > I am trying to mirror two 400G drives, is this > supported? Sure, follow the RSE link you were sent. > There is no information anywhere that I can find about these > topics. Always search the mailing list archives. > /Joe > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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