From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 09:53:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35439106566B for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlopmart@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14F68FC0A for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so7142262eyd.13 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:53:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z9KQluRRuB0AhCbwr4LBy5VHo/80dLEfG6djiT3oKFk=; b=AKSGLlFfGMzzBzzFI6/c5IYXCFLT79qY9cxhLqIoAjYbHBangdM/q4UpbF733+K068 cyuFDl68mcfZ/G6LNGE52PHnGRFB+epkY7dnNW64zy1lw4oigx3k7zXK/hg0bMpXJanJ wm0cQIhWvSc+MPmM/17oRLGGPqbBYB+tAhqWg= Received: by 10.14.2.207 with SMTP id 55mr2650126eef.152.1319448116641; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silmaril.hpulabs.org (71.Red-88-11-134.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net. [88.11.134.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 49sm58605366eec.1.2011.10.24.02.21.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA52E30.4010704@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:21:52 +0200 From: carlopmart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110929 Red Hat/3.1.15-1.el6_1 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Questions about using gvirstor as a RAID0 solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:53:02 -0000 Hi all, I would like to use gvirstor as a thin provisioning solution for a mysql server, but I have some doubts about using it: a) Do I need to put "geom_virstor_load=YES"" on loader.conf or this kernel module is loaded automatically at boot If I create gvirstor volume using the label option?? b) Does gvirstor supports UFS journaling?? For example: gjournal label /dev/virstor/mydata newfs -O 2 -J /dev/virstor/mydata c) Can i use growfs utility If I need to expand a virstor volume at filesystem level?? Thanks P.D: I am using FreeBSD9-RC1 in this server -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com