Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:57:51 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM's RAID level support Message-ID: <20051008065751.GC1000@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20051008023521.D55180@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> References: <20051006125233.754dd00e.josh@oplink.net> <86r7aywju7.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051006200802.GL564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051006201616.GE26614@garage.freebsd.pl> <20051006202700.GM564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051008023521.D55180@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:35:21AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: +> The end result looks like: +> +> bash-2.05b# gmirror status +> Name Status Components +> mirror/gm0 COMPLETE ad4a +> ad6a +> ad8a +> ad10a Isn't that waste of space? I see your /var/ file system is the same size as / file system, so creating two mirrors (ad4a+ad6a) for / and (ad8a+ad10a) for /var/ will save you some space. +> I set the system up with a Makefile and some initial disk labels +> (below my sig) and lots of trial and error, executing make zap, make +> label_disks, etc. No doubt less than perfect, but it worked for me. +> +> At work, I've developed a makefile based version of RSE's "single disk +> to two disk" approach. If there is any interest, I'll ask my boss if I +> can release it. Nice idea, but I think at this point it is too much specific for you configuration. It'd be much useful when it will be more general somehow. +> Is anybody doing anything about: +> Making systinstall GEOM aware? Yes, Craig Rodrigues (rodrigc@) is working on it. +> Putting RSE's excellent instructions in the handbook? Not sure about this one. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDR23vForvXbEpPzQRAs6OAJ4j+0Moq7qmbZECS/uvPEiHSe5T3wCeIZn1 caNMEectxQMcq6hg+VVVJZc= =qA2S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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