Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:59:35 +0200 From: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use? Message-ID: <46A8E107.2070203@passagen.se> In-Reply-To: <200707252243.30619.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <20070726015647.GA11187@just.puresimplicity.net> <200707252243.30619.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen skrev: > 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? > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Gconcat looks mighty cool, will it be able to concat two devices that already have existing filesystems on them and retain these? Say that ad0 has /usr and ad1 has /home will gconcat preserve these after concat:ing ad0 with ad1?
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