Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:22:40 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use? Message-ID: <46A81380.1000506@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A81170.7070402@u.washington.edu> References: <20070726015647.GA11187@just.puresimplicity.net> <200707252243.30619.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070726030855.GB11187@just.puresimplicity.net> <46A81170.7070402@u.washington.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Garrett Cooper wrote: > Josh Tolbert wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:43:29PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: >>> >>>> I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file >>>> server. He >>>> has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as >>>> one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe >>>> doesn't seem like it'd be smart to use with differently-sized >>>> drives. Is >>>> gvinum up to snuff and stable enough to use? Is ccd still >>>> supported? What >>>> would be your tool of choice? >>>> >>> gconcat, perhaps? >>> >> >> Talk about missing the obvious one...That should work. Thanks. >> >> Josh >> > dump(3)? > -Garrett Nevermind that last comment... gvinum works just fine for RAID-0 operations, if that's what you want. -Garrett
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46A81380.1000506>