Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Roger Olofsson on 07/26/07 12:59>> John Nielsen skrev: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appro

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Roger Olofsson wrote: > Gconcat looks mighty cool, will it be able to concat two devices that > already have existing filesystems on them and retain these? Say that ad0 > has /usr and ad1 has /home will gconcat preserve these after concat:ing > ad0 with ad1

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
John Nielsen skrev: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:56 PM 7/25/2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: Hello, I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like it'd be smart to u

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:22:40PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > gvinum works just fine for RAID-0 operations, if that's what you want. > > -Garrett Probably not, considering the drives are all different sizes. I think gconcat will most likely do what we want. Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EM

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Josh Tolbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:43:29PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Josh Tolbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:43:29PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file sy

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:43:29PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He > > has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as > > one big file system. What's the a

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: > I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He > has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as > one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe > doesn't seem like it'd be smart to

Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread Josh Tolbert
Hello, I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like it'd be smart to use with differently-sized drives. Is gvinum u