Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you want specific advice for a specific scenario you can probably get it, but you'll have to supply some additional details. For instance I'm still not sure if this is a new install or an upgrade Both: I wa

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:47:43AM -0800, Chris H. wrote: Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I >don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume >(or from

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:47:43AM -0800, Chris H. wrote: > Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I > >don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume > >(or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from

Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you want specific advice for a specific scenario you can probably get it, but you'll have to supply some additional details. For instance I'm still not sure if this is a new install or an upgrade Both: I was wondering why gmirror wasn't an option duri

Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 1/2/08, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, in the final analysis I've decided (now that it's (7B4) installed...) > I'll just keep /boot, /root (and presumably /dev) on the already available > and running install disk (da3). > Then perform: > > # gstripe label -v -s 131072 bigstripe \ > /d

gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I ---8<---snip---8<--- to be sure. Are you sure? ---8<---snip---8<--- volume. Yes, I'm sure. I

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below i

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below it doesn't sound like you intend to but I just wanted to be sure. Quoting John Nielse

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never ---8<---snip---8<--- I had originally intended to create a raid mirror on the whole lot of HD's during the install process. But I wa

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below it doesn't sound like you intend to but I j

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never ---8<---snip---8<--- I had originally intended to create a raid mirror on the whole lot of HD's during the install process. But I wasn't presented, nor could I find that opti

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris H. wrote: Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set? If not, why? If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all availabl

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris H. wrote: > Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set? > If not, why? > If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available drives > with > the data on the installed drive? sysinstall does not provide an

gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never really saw a definitive answer to it. So let's try it again. :) I'm looking to upgrade all our servers to 7 in the not-to-distant future. As I look to overcome the quirks in 7 as they apply to our hardware (I'm already