On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:00:39PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote: +> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:58:25 +0200, Miguel Mendez +> <flynn_at_energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote: +> +> > I installed 5.3-RC1 yesterday. My main box has 2 9GB disks, which I +> > usually partition this way: +> > +> > da0:[512MB for / ][ 8.5GB ] +> > da1:[512MB for swap][ 8.5GB ] +> [[...]] +> > My question is, is gstripe supposed to work *only* with whole +> > disks? If that's the case, wouldn't it be interesting to make it be +> > able +> > to work with partitions as well? It should work with any GEOM providers. Without more info it will be hard to track it down... +> Actually, I labelled the two stripes using glabel(1) and am in fact +> striping the two labelled providers (so I can freely move the disks +> around without breaking the stripe). Actually you don't need to use glabel(8) for gstripe(8) if you didn't use '-h' option while your stripe was created. +> I do recall some people reporting synchronisation problems using +> geom_mirror with SCSI providers (with Pawel providing various patches to +> fix things). It's possible the same problems affect geom_stripe +> devices. No, this is not related to gstripe, we don't have synchronization here. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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