On 27/07/2010 6:54 AM, John Almberg wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native
RAID is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it
occurs to me that my
On 26 July 2010 20:05, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Hi, John--
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, John Almberg wrote:
I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many miraculous
things, that I can't help asking...
Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the
krad wrote:
[snip]
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID
is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/raid.html
[snip]
I dont agree that hardware raid is necessarily better. It really
One of my clients has a server that hosts big public-access type videos.
He started off with a separate 200G drive just for video storage
(FreeBSD is on another drive). This video storage drive is mounted as
/videos.
He's just bought another drive, but now I'm thinking of what to do with
26.07.2010 21:55, John Almberg wrote:
One of my clients has a server that hosts big public-access type videos.
He started off with a separate 200G drive just for video storage
(FreeBSD is on another drive). This video storage drive is mounted as
/videos.
He's just bought another drive, but now
Hi, John--
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, John Almberg wrote:
I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many miraculous
things, that I can't help asking...
Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the /videos file system?
So it would miraculously look like a
Volodymyr/Chuck,
Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the /videos file system? So
it would miraculously look like a single 400G drive?
The canonical way of doing this is to either create a RAID-0 concat or stripe
volume.
Wow, of course... I should have thought of
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Hi, John--
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, John Almberg wrote:
I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many miraculous
things, that I can't help asking...
Is it possible to use the second drive to
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID is
better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it
occurs to me that my client has a SCSI RAID drive chassis that he is
using
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID
is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it
occurs
John Almberg wrote:
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native
RAID is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it
occurs to me that my client has a SCSI RAID drive chassis that he
, 2010 3:31 PM
To: Chuck Swiger
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID is
better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also:
I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute
From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 1:41:19 PM
Subject: RE: 1 file system, 2 drives?
From my experience (YMMV), most RAID controllers will NOT redistribute
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Sent: Mon Jul 26 19:57:28 2010
Subject: Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?
From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com
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Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 1:41:19 PM
Subject: RE: 1 file system, 2 drives
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