Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-25 Thread Edward Tomasz Napierała
Wiadomość napisana przez Lee Dilkie w dniu 19 cze 2012, o godz. 14:13: > Hi Rudi, > > Seems like you are hitting the same growfs bug that gets all of us that > try to do this simple task. > > growfs needs a patch to use 64 bit math inside... > > I created such a beast a while back, based on some

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-20 Thread Rudi Kramer
On 19 June 2012 18:55, wrote: > > Try ZFS. You can maximize your storage easily with ZFS if you want. > > With ZFS you can add multiple disks and ZFS will spread the data out > across them. ZFS also keeps track of what file is where. If you lose a > disk then ZFS is supposed to tell you what file

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Lee Dilkie
What I did to meet my needs of "growable but reliable" was to use a gconcat array of gmirrors. I never did add the second drives to the gmirror's so I never did get the reliability part of my dream. But at least you can create a gmirror with one drive and a gconcat of that. This was all before ZF

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:33:08 -0500, RW wrote: That's not consistent with: " I am not too fussy about the data but I dont want one disk failing to cause me to loose all my data." My brain thought what he wanted to be more along the lines of "I don't want a failed grow operation to make me lo

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread RW
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:26:34 -0500 Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:10:11 -0500, wrote: > > > You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across > > multiple > > disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire > > filesystem, > > right? > > Media fil

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Rudi Kramer
On 19 June 2012 15:10, wrote: > > > You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across multiple > disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire filesystem, > right? > > To avoid this you need either mirroring or one of the other forms of raid. > > What's the issue

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:10:11 -0500, wrote: You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across multiple disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire filesystem, right? Media files are usually categorized under "non-important data" unless they're your life

Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Lee Dilkie
Hi Rudi, Seems like you are hitting the same growfs bug that gets all of us that try to do this simple task. growfs needs a patch to use 64 bit math inside... I created such a beast a while back, based on some earlier work and fixed it up a bit myself. I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't been

Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

2012-06-19 Thread Rudi Kramer
Hello, I am running a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC (amd64) home media server I wanted to find a way to add multiple disks to a single volume without using raid because I am not too fussy about the data but I dont want one disk failing to cause me to loose all my data. I found gconcat and it see