stripe and mirror on the same disks

[Lukas Ertl]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, sebastian ssmoller wrote:

> i have only read some doc about geom and i wonder if this setup would be
> possible with it ?
> geom_stripe, geom_concat (and possible geom_mirror) are based on disks
> (not slices) as far as i understand ? if so, how could i use both
> geom classes / tools for the same physical disks ?

If your are using GEOM you can stack the modules as you like.  geom_mirror
doesn't care if the provider below is an MBR slice or a BSD partition.

So, you can partition the disk and then mirror the results, or you mirror
the disks and then partition as you like it.

> how does geom_vinum fit into this situation ?

I plan to have geom_vinum as a true drop-in replacement, so any
combination of current vinum volumes should be supported, too.

regards,
le

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