Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:22:19 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks? Message-ID: <440A677B.7000308@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <200603040748.11275.joao@matik.com.br> References: <44077E79.2080708@rogers.com> <200603031840.19837.joao@matik.com.br> <4408FF66.1030401@paradise.net.nz> <200603040748.11275.joao@matik.com.br>
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JoaoBR wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 23:45, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > >>I would certainly see the installer handling software RAID as a >>considerable benefit. >> >> From what I've seen on the net, to install and boot off RAIDed system >>disks is quite fiddly (maybe gmirror is the exception here, as I've >>mainly been looking at striping). >> >>Cheers >> >>Mark > > > geom changed this complications definitely, using gmirror or gstripe commands > is easy as copying a file. (Chuckles) - While I see your point, I see that Ralf E's article discussing this very issue weighs in at about a page worth of instructions for *each* of the two methods discussed. Now, sure, he's being pedantically careful so no-one will misunderstand and murder their systems - but ISTM that this is the sort of task that ideally an installer could/should handle. The argument of 'its only a few commands...' does not really stand up - as (for instance) it could be equally applied to that installer providing package installation - and it seems to have that facility (thankfully!). > So in comparism > the easy use of geom is great and the people which developed geom did a > really fantastic job. > I agree, as the geom based applications are maturing, we are starting to see that benefit of the geom infrastructure. Cheers Mark
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