Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:03:26 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror disks vs partitions Message-ID: <cb5206420701170603u176ee53creff1ecbc8a5f5fbd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070D9E41@svr1.irtnog.org> References: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070D9E41@svr1.irtnog.org>
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On 1/17/07, Matthew X. Economou <xenophon@irtnog.org> wrote: > > 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=169386&cid=14117414 [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always expected to be present in software raid solutions. I hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom.
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