Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:31:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: Setting up gmirror Message-ID: <20081022153034.L2152@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <48FE709D.9080907@telus.net> References: <48FE709D.9080907@telus.net>
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>>> disk will be overwritten). Add another disk to this mirror, so it >>> will >>> be synchronized with existing disk: >>> >>> gmirror label -v -b round-robin data da0 >> >> add -s <very large value> like -s 1048576 to prevent splitting one request >> on 2 disks. > > I thought the -s option was only applicable when using "-b split" for the > balancing algorithm. Does "round-robin" not mean simply alternating between > the two disks without ever splitting requests? no. it means for example with -s 65536 and 1MB request - it will split this request on 2 disks
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