From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 01:38:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E10816A40F; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:38:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE3743D45; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:38:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CDA3A4663; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:38:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96717-07; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0FF3A343D; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:36:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 2BF5C5DEB3; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:37:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F1636C4B; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:37:19 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:37:19 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: geom - help ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:38:34 -0000 'k, I'm used to vinum from back in 4.x days, but now running 6.x, am looking at using geom ... and am not sure exactly what I can do ... Pointers to tutorials always appreciated ... Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but that doesn't appear to be available right now, so, figure I'll go with a RAID0+1 with hotspare configuration, if possible ... ? Now, trying to parse the geom man page(s), I'm not sure if the hotspare option is even ... an option ... if it is, please point me to where I should be looking for this ... So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do something like: gstripe st1 da1 da2 gstripe st2 da3 da4 gmirror drive st1 st2 newfs drive is this correct, or am I *totally* missing something here? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664