Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-20 Thread jonathan michaels
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:29:33PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/17/07, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A poll for opinions if I may? i suppose i'm asking the smae here as well ... > > I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which > > pair up two drive

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-19 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:15:56 +0900 > "Adrian Chadd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] > > > > > > Yes, but that's the kind of

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-19 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: When ZFS comes available, I plan to actually run it across multiple mirrors. It has built in JBOD, but it does not do mirroring. It just does stripping. I think you misunderstand ZFS. It is robust against multiple disk failures. It doesn'

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always > expected to be present in software raid solutions. I > hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom. For adding drives there's gconcat, for resizing (well, you currently have to decide on the maximum size in ad

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-18 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:15:56 +0900 "Adrian Chadd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] > > > > Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always > > expected to be present in soft

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always expected to be present in software raid solutions. I hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom. That made my eyes blee

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/18/07, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/17/07, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A poll for opinions if I may? >> >> I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which >> pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /d

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 1/17/07, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A poll for opinions if I may? I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /dev/ad0s1 with /dev/ad1s1). Of course there are other ways of

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 06:29, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/17/07, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A poll for opinions if I may? > > > > I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which > > pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /dev/ad0s1 > >

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/17/07, Matthew X. Economou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied > during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to > using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring? Joe, Partition-level software RAID p

RE: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew X. Economou
> Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied > during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to > using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring? Joe, Partition-level software RAID plus LVM is how the following Slashdot poster manages extendab

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/17/07, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A poll for opinions if I may? I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /dev/ad0s1 with /dev/ad1s1). Of course there are other ways of doing it to, like mirrorin