From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 22:08:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 4710116A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1E6343D2F for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:08:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 34491 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 22:08:47 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 22:08:47 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mac@cs.hmc.edu Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:08:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041128194119.GB3673@turing.cs.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041128194119.GB3673@turing.cs.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411282308.46681.4711@chello.at> Subject: Re: Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:08:50 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 November 2004 20:41, Mac Mason wrote: > So, I have a pair of disks I'd like to put into a mirror with /usr on > them; this is 5.3-RELEASE, so using vinum is out of the question. > > It looks to me like gstripe will do the trick; If you want to run a mirror (raid1) w/o using gvinum, gmirror does the trick. > all that is necessary is > that the module get loaded before boot tries to mount /usr. > > Can this be done? Yes! 'man 8 loader.conf' contains information on boot-time module loading. An example - if you want geom_stripe.ko loading at boot-time just put the line 'geom_stripe_load="YES"' into your /boot/loader.conf. > (I also have a concatenated pair I'd like to use for something else, but > it's not boot-critical, and I imagine answering one question answers both) > > Thanks! > > --Mac - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBqkxu09WjGjvKU74RAu8EAJsGrG8380czle5sRJifyZSATEus+gCfVP2/ TzPHJKIMK+Q2C0uvptQjW20= =65G5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----