On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote
> On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: > > ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my > > problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that > > failed with 2 different approaches. > > > > I'm accepting that ZFS is a too big thing for the i386 architecture > > and I possibly should leave it alone on that machine. > > > > But my 2nd try with gvinum failed also ...why? > > I've had success using a combination of gstripe and gmirror to create a > RAID10 over 4 drives: > > % gstripe status > Name Status Components > stripe/st0 UP mirror/gm2 > mirror/gm1 > % gmirror status > Name Status Components > mirror/gm2 COMPLETE da0 (ACTIVE) > da1 (ACTIVE) > mirror/gm1 COMPLETE da2 (ACTIVE) > da3 (ACTIVE) > > This is a separate data area though -- system boots from some different > drives. I can't remember if it is possible to boot from a gstripe. While it hasn't been since around the beginning of 8. I can confirm it's possible to boot from a gstripe(8). --Chris > > Cheers, > > Matthew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
