gmirror / gstripe

[John Pettitt]

Ean Kingston wrote:

>
> On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55  PM, John Pettitt wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using
>> gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1) Has anybody done this?  What should I watch our for?
>
>
> I haven't done this on FreeBSD or with USB drives (but have on Solaris
> with SCSI). Make sure all your USB drives always show up as the same
> device (in /dev) or you may wind up corrupting your system.
>
geom labels take care of this - I already have three usb drives on this
box and they change device names if I re-plug them and gstripe copes
just fine.

John