Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 19 15:33:13 UTC 2012


On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:26:34 -0500
Mark Felder wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:10:11 -0500, <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?
> 
> Media files are usually categorized under "non-important data"
> unless they're your life's work. I'm sure he's just trying to create
> more storage for his FreeBSD based media player or storage backend.

That's not consistent with: " I am not too fussy about the data but I
dont want one disk failing to cause me to loose all my data."



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