Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:08:07 -0500 From: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> To: <stable@freebsd.org>, <fs@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: gmirror disks vs partitions Message-ID: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070D9E41@svr1.irtnog.org> In-Reply-To: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk>
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> 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 extendable (and inequally sized disk) arrays on Linux: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3D169386&cid=3D14117414 Best wishes, Matthew --=20 "Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery." - A. C. Hobbs in _Locks and Safes_ (1853)
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