Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
n j wrote: > On a side note, it would be nice if creating RAID arrays was included > in the FreeBSD install similar to Debian install (according to my > colleague, haven't seen it myself). I agree, but this would take a non-trivial effort to make happen. I hope you'll consider working on it or pe

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread Vince
n j wrote: > John, > > thank you very much for your detailed input. > >> If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering >> your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install >> everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical parti

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread n j
John, thank you very much for your detailed input. > If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering > your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install > everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical partition > on the second d

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread John Nielsen
nd if it's possible at all, please share. > > On the other hand, if setting up gstripe during install is not > possible, is it possible to install FreeBSD on one disk and later > setup the gstripe to use the entire capacity? Or, since performance is > not a key issue here, maybe

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 September 2007, John Nielsen wrote: > I assume you're aware of all the caveats that go along with using RAID-0 > (no redundancy, twice as likely to fail, etc.). You can't use the method > Dru outlines to create a gstripe volume since you can't add drives to a > gstripe after it's creat

Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread n j
how to setup RAID-1 gmirror during install suggesting that what I'm trying to accomplish is possible. However, I haven't found any pointers to doing same with gstripe. If anyone knows how to do this and if it's possible at all, please share. On the other hand, if setting up gstripe