Expandable filesystem with more disk

[Markus Örebrand]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek [mailto:pjd at FreeBSD.org] 
> Sent: den 30 januari 2006 21:29
> To: Markus Örebrand
> Cc: freebsd-geom at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Expandable filesystem with more disk
> 
> You can do it with gconcat(8). Create concatenated device with two
> components:
> 
> 	# gconcat label NAME ad0s1d ad1
> 	# newfs /dev/concat/NAME
> 
> When you want to add another disk:
> 
> 	# gconcat label NAME ad0s1d ad1 ad2
> 	# growfs /dev/concat/NAME
> 
> With 'label' and 'create' subcommand you need to give at least two
> providers currently, but now I see it will be useful to allow 
> to specify
> only one. I'll change it soon.
> 

Thanks for your answer. I sort of figured gconcat would be the way to
go.

And yes, it would be useful to allow creation with only one provider
(sorry for the provider/consumer confusion earlier), especially with a
number of repos of this kind.

Still, what are the chances of data corruption when adding more
providers and then growfs? Growfs comes bundled with warnings at
least...

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Markus Örebrand, Systems administrator @ Operax