Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 20:54:42 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems .... Message-ID: <20140802185442.GA28910@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <53DCF32A.30700@hiwaay.net> References: <53DAFCF2.2070909@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407312131550.50731@wonkity.com> <53DB9797.1010702@hiwaay.net> <20140801164335.GA16376@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DCF32A.30700@hiwaay.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 09:18:18AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> I poked around a bit (*not* much), & missed anything RAID-related in the > >> installer .... is that on me ? The FreeBSD doc site seemed to imply that > >> I would need the shell approach to do what I wanted, so I mostly just > >> went w/ that, maybe more pilot error :-/ .... > > Personally, to keep things simple I like to install FreeBSD on a simple UFS > > partition. > > > > Once the system is up and running I can then mirror/raid the data drives any > > way I choose. > > > > There is a wiki page about setting up FreeBSD on a mirrored ZFS boot drive > > though; https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE > > > > > > Roland > > > I tried that & it worked, I am up & running, but on only 1/4 drives. I know > ZFS can add drive/providers to stripes or mirrors, how about UFS ? I can > create the stripe for /home & arrange for that to be mounted, but what about > root ? Is there a way to create a stripe from 1 or more possibly partitions > ? TIA for any more clues .... You can create a stripe from devices, not from partitions, AFAICT. See gstripe(8). Unlike ZFS (where you can add disks to an existing pool), I don't think you can later add devices to an existing gstripe. I'd suggest that you create a raidz pool from the remaining devices, and use that for whatever filesystems you like. You can have multiple filesystems on one zpool, and they will share all the space in the pool. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT3TPyAAoJEED21dyjijPgMg4P/R65Cxtrzl2yy5z9WFREtFEp ows3X3MQkyncNmKq1JXX1P2P/ZPKptj57VyN7Z000GCz2F5rU98rqjHH3cbjuedF rBqG4PdLrgy+JFfvii+bTUC0vdMyk/sU4i718H+OgC/biGLqFgG9ECZuAVSJK1r3 c37AGCCtFoeE+isCIv0LP5hZrvyOrtTdAlBAt2s/PN9CIKFq1Lyzcl2AWN2zVW15 nL45Ve9LvhfBRnOghvoqXIAx91dloKdjY5WTH+CNPLbBRCbm2hd85+QzPZO+WJjA Wd1ehYCU9nfMNTBnC9dpgwalHY7HCcVJ/9xmsQa5jFxMkfC3LX8qtFdmfEgVVadL EaAoIiQqnIcsJZntE7pdrL0ehNT8C4P/GQ3Pr63N5d12a7mo4TYerJ36/ftUJV0O dqJ6g91Qiw6s6VOICYj/wSKDoTU1UMkVQlmcsN/spKMRUENWhMJK0BpU7X56ouh8 CcP00RASHoLyRoal4VmapPDmoV+8+rmwf8CNb8t1TR7BlhS1uTpweDZbCNj1aMN0 XLSy6CQE+bM6eb4DxL2dIZ2MbwQZHKTeAjU30FsDGHCgapCK80m5Tixu5rSIJPXg syuc9aNb+VsF6W37jrysrb61SL5FxhaVwGWfSLrvremEuh3rTcBmxweXop5TTN15 smZjEiGkebRh7Gjp0E3q =HrpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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