Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

[Lee Dilkie]

What I did to meet my needs of "growable but reliable" was to use a
gconcat array of gmirrors.

I never did add the second drives to the gmirror's so I never did get
the reliability part of my dream. But at least you can create a gmirror
with one drive and a gconcat of that.

This was all before ZFS, which I think handles this better now (if it
works).

On 6/19/2012 11:22 AM, Rudi Kramer wrote:
> On 19 June 2012 15:10, <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across multiple
>> disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire filesystem,
>> right?
>>
>> To avoid this you need either mirroring or one of the other forms of raid.
>>
>> What's the issue with raid?
>>
> Crap I thought that I would just lose the information on that drive and not
> the entire volume :/
>
> I dont have any issues with raid but I want to maximise my storage and I
>  dont really care if I lose the data. It would just be nice if I didn't
> loose everything cause of one disk dying. Maybe I should be looking at
> something like unionfs but from the man page it looks very old, out of date
> and slightly dangerous. All the things I like in cheese but not in file
> systems.
>
> Rudi
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