Two questions about gconcat

[R. B. Riddick]

--- Christophe Branchereau <chris.branch at gmx.de> wrote:
> First question is, the system is very slow to start. From what I can see
> on the console, it first stops for a while after an "2nd cpu launched !"
> message (I know, that doesn't belong to this list) and it halts again 
> for a while launching gconcat, the floppy drive making weird noises. 
> Hmmm, I didn't concat my floppy drive... any thoughts ?
>
I built a customized kernel without floppy disk driver, so that the floppy disk
drive is not checked by GEOM for any meta data...

> Second question is, if one of the two disks fails, will I be able to 
> retreive what is on the other disk ? I mean, is there still a "normal" 
> UFS system on it that I will be able to mount or would be everything 
> lost ? I would then rather mount the second disk in /usr/home/compaq or 
> something...
> 
Most likely not, because UFS likes to spread big files over its whole area, so
that at least party of ur big files will be gone...

-Arne



 
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