Writing contigiously to UFS2?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 21 11:33:24 PDT 2007


Oliver Fromme wrote:

> I haven't used gvirstor myself, but if I understand it
> correctly, it should start filling its providers from the
> start, and only begin using the next one when the previous
> ones are all completely used.  So it should do exactly
> what you want.

Yes, with the side-effect of putting all cgs and their metadata on the
beginning of the first drive. An obvious side-effect is that, writing to
any drive other than the first will also touch the first drive.

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