Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:26:06 -0800 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gmirror / gstripe Message-ID: <422B837E.9070900@cloudview.com> In-Reply-To: <C94A9226-8E8B-11D9-AE49-000A95D73348@hedron.org> References: <C94A9226-8E8B-11D9-AE49-000A95D73348@hedron.org>
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Ean Kingston wrote: > > On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55 PM, John Pettitt wrote: > >> >> I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using >> gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. >> >> Questions: >> >> 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? > > > I haven't done this on FreeBSD or with USB drives (but have on Solaris > with SCSI). Make sure all your USB drives always show up as the same > device (in /dev) or you may wind up corrupting your system. > geom labels take care of this - I already have three usb drives on this box and they change device names if I re-plug them and gstripe copes just fine. John
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