RAID10 setup

[Phil Lewis]

Thanks to both of you for the encouraging words. I'm going to do little more
reading and schedule some time probably on Wednesday to give this a go.

I'll feel a lot more conformable for your responses!

Cheers

Phil



> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:30:52 -0400
> From: John Nielsen
> Subject: Re: RAID10 setup
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Phil Lewis <dharma66 at gmail.com>
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> You're on the right track, additional comments inline.
>
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> You seem to be pretty well on track. It seems you've already parsed the
> gstripe and gmirror man pages. You should probably look at fdisk(8) and
> bsdlabel(8) as well in case sysinstall doesn't tie up all your loose

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> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:53:45 +0100
> From: chris scott
> Subject: Re: RAID10 setup
> To: John Nielsen
> Cc: Phil Lewis <dharma66 at gmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> When you create the file systems you should  also consider laying gjournal
> on top of the stripe as well. In most cases it will remove the need for
> having to fsck the file systems when there's a system crash. Quite useful if
> the filesystem is large.
>
> I also like the label the filesystems with glabel so they appear in the
> fstab as
>
> /dev/ufs/root
> /dev/ufs/usr
> /dev/ufs/var
>
> etc
>
> makes life a little easier
>