New FreeBSD8.2 server install.
I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate the drives into a software raid0 array? **EDIT** I postponed this mail and actually got significant answers from freenode/##freebsd, more then I antisipated. gconcat is what I was looking for above and in lieu of that, ZFS, which I would very much like to utilize, I'm just not sure how to go about it with a hodge-podge collection of disks: 1) 1x150GB PATA/EIDE drive 2) 2x80GB Drives (1 SATA, 1 PATA/EIDE) 3) 1x60GB PATA/EIDE drive 4) 2x40GB PATA/EIDE drives The machine is a P4 Prescott, 2.6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU), like I mentioned, I just don't know what to do and am looking for some suggestions. P.S. Currently, this machine is installed w/ the 150GB disk and I am sitting at the Fixit prompt because I may whipe the drive and start over with something else. -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: New FreeBSD8.2 server install.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:01:18 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate the drives into a software raid0 array? There is ccd - Concatenated Disk drive; see man ccd for details. Also see the chapters in the Handbook: The Vinum Volume Manager http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html RAID http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html Those might be informative and inspiring. **EDIT** I postponed this mail and actually got significant answers from freenode/##freebsd, more then I antisipated. gconcat is what I was looking for above and in lieu of that, ZFS, which I would very much like to utilize, I'm just not sure how to go about it with a hodge-podge collection of disks: 1) 1x150GB PATA/EIDE drive 2) 2x80GB Drives (1 SATA, 1 PATA/EIDE) 3) 1x60GB PATA/EIDE drive 4) 2x40GB PATA/EIDE drives The machine is a P4 Prescott, 2.6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU), like I mentioned, I just don't know what to do and am looking for some suggestions. One thing is to use gstripe and gmirror, other is ZFS (but your machine should be _good_ to actually make use of it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: New FreeBSD8.2 server install.
Em Seg, 2011-06-20 às 13:01 -0400, Chris Brennan escreveu: I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate the drives into a software raid0 array? Hello, I prefer ZFS, it is reliable, fast, and full of features, in a FreeBSD 8.2 AMD64 it rocks... I use to partition the disk using a small ufs partition (4Gb) follow 4Gb swap, and the rest of the disk for ZFS, Once created the zfs , I can mount the zfs as rootfs, and than define whatever I need after, as mirror, partitions, snapshots... and so on the system must have 4G (or more) of memory, and is is really fast.. I am very satisfied with the system (I have installed about 60 already, with this configuration)... Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
