Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:21:52 +0100 From: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd@biaix.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, le@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sorely missing gvinum start or attach Message-ID: <20060116092151.GA99286@grummit.biaix.org> In-Reply-To: <20060113214941.GB9258@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <20060113213151.GA49805@grummit.biaix.org> <20060113214941.GB9258@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
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Hi there, Thanks for your expression of interest; given the length of my request I realize some introduction was necessary. * Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> [20060113 22:46]: > Could you describe what you are trying to accomplish? I'd like both stripes and mirrors, and more than 8 partitions. What I've provided so far is just the base system's setup: mostly mirrored volumes but already one striped volume. Many more should come, and possibly new disks too. I opted for gvinum because of it's flexibilty, and decided to create the setup on one disk first to get the "root-on-vinum" issue working and to be able to do some testing (adding and removing drives). > You're adding a second disk to the system and you want a RAID of some > sort ... what kind of RAID? A mirror? Those are super easy ... just > Google up a "gmirror howto" ... Yep, I know about rse@'s HOWTO. > if you are trying to do something more complicated, please explain > that, as it would help people understand all your technical stuff. I hope my requirements are clearer now: I want a flexible software RAID system on FreeBSD, since I envision the need for many (~20) fs's with different storage requirements. I realize Lukas might not have as much free time as he'd wish, but an ETA on 'start', 'stop' and 'attach' would be greatly appreciated. tks -- pica
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