My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use
gmirror? Is it completelly transparent
and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild
started?
I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap)
Artem
Yes. In fact, you can test this by
30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT
and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's
possible to
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote:
I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks.
I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found
it very good wrt to both performance and robustness.
You can spend the extra money you spare on the
30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT
On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good disks;
as someone else pointed out don't get desktop-class ones, but 24x7 ones.
Server Class drives buy you some improvement, but my recent experience with
Seagate
There seems to be one more advantage to gmirror
If i understood correctly
gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0 da1 da2
will create a tripple mirror raid 1, that is
triple redundancy, which is hardly available on any hardware raid.
Am i correct here?
Also, does anyone know how to choose
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block:
GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per
drive.
Please, clarify what you mean here.
If only one GPT partition on a drive is mirrored with another GPT partition
on another drive, head
On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote:
If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all
three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs
partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change
often, and swap does
30.01.2013 19:28, Paul Kraus:
On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote:
If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three
partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition
only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
Also, not being able to boot if first disk has some error in boot
section or just strangly dead is not an option too. However, i was
just thinking, if i use gmirror then bios does not know anything about
it. I may set both harddisk as boot disk, but if
29.01.2013 11:54, Michael Powell:
Artem Kuchin wrote:
I guess what I'm trying to point out is that low performance wrt software
RAID will stem from other things besides just simply consuming a few CPU
cycles. Today's CPUs have the cycles to spare. I've been using gmirror for
RAID 1 mirrors
Artem Kuchin wrote:
[snip]
The server is going to be a web server with many sites and with mysql
running on it. Nothing really really
heavy. Currently with run all this on our own server with 8 cores and
16GB ram and 3ware raid1
and cpu load is about 5% :) Everything is quick and responsive.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror?
Is it completelly transparent
and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started?
I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap)
As
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and
GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to
mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one
partition
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:57:31 -0600, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
As far a gmirror is concerned, yes, drives can be removed and new drives
inserted while the mirror is running. Hot swap is more of an issue with
the hardware. I have not tried it with SATA drives, although I think
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote:
The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM
metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT
partitions, but be aware
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote:
Hello!
I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server.
The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good
options they do not
provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for
freebsd.
The server base
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote:
Hello!
I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server.
The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good
options they do not
provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not
On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Artem Kuchin wrote:
I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server.
The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options
they do not
provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for
freebsd.
I prefer SW
Artem Kuchin wrote:
Hello!
I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server.
The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good
options they do not
provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for
freebsd.
The server base conf is 8core
Does FreeBSD support any type of software raid?
I have an old rack mount server which has 8 bays, but all SATA,
and NO raid. Sure would be nice to have a software raid
to create a NAS device.
Yes!
An example of setting up a 3 disk raidz might look like this:
zpool create myfancyraid
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jim Pazarena wrote:
Does FreeBSD support any type of software raid?
I have an old rack mount server which has 8 bays, but all SATA,
and NO raid. Sure would be nice to have a software raid
to create a NAS device.
Sure, multiple ways, in fact:
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote:
Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror
mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror
for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk).
It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather than
Hi,
Danny Edge wrote:
What works for you and can you suggest a guide? I haven't setup a BSD server
in 8 years, but my environment will be:
I've been using gmirror for some time, without problems.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html
FreeBSD 7.2
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Danny Edge wrote:
What works for you and can you suggest a guide? I haven't setup a BSD
server
in 8 years, but my environment will be:
I've been using gmirror for some time, without problems.
Matt Proud wrote:
Hi all,
I have used FreeBSD for a long time very casually but have never explored
any of its software RAID or volume management features---at least to a
degree to which I feel comfortable with them. What I would like to know with
this post is 1.) whether there exists the
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:56 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror
Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/
Also, I recently updated the plugin code to r270 with some patches from
Scott Swanson. You can see a small screenshot of it in action here:
Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror
Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/
Cheers!
~BAS (Dealing with a fucked up gmirror raid 1 this morning)
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:32 +, Robin Becker wrote:
I set this system up using Dru Lavigne's recipe, but I don't really
understand
--
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
I have been uable to get vinum to work under 6.0. I'm no expert though.
Vinum became gvinum in 6.0 and is implemented using geom.
Recently the gvinum man page has been updated and it available in 6.1
RC-1.
I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. It
seems as
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote:
I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages.
Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk
issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to
have setup properly. Now,
You can try gmirror(8)
Ref:
1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
2. http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6309
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives
IMHO, fdisk is unnecessary. I got my two brand
new HDs ad[46] mirrored w/o fdisk.
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:39PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote:
I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages.
Great, I
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk
issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to
have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is
the purpose of
Hi,
newfs first?
In my experiment, there is only one mirror/gm0s1 exists (no s1a, s1c...)
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:40:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:16 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
Great doc, thanks! I was able to get the first part of the 2nd approach
booting from the gm0 mirror, but after booting and trying to add my da0
to the mirror, it does not recognize the
John Oxley wrote:
Hi,
I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software
RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to
the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and
created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the
Of ptitoliv
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:56 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4
Hello again,
Thank you for all your answers ! I am going to look at gmirror and ccd.
But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor
detected with a 111 GB
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 21:28 schrieb ptitoliv:
Hello everybody,
I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create
with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but
lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am
I can't
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:28:22 +0200
ptitoliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create
with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but
lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am
asking
I have had a lot of sucess with ccd. Its pretty simple to configure.
Basically, you just add the kernel device. Label the disks, do a ccdconfig
ccd0 stripe size 0 /dev/drive #1 /dev/drive #2. Then newfs ccd0 and
mount it where you want it.
Casey
Hello everybody,
I have 2 120 Go Drives
Hello again,
Thank you for all your answers ! I am going to look at gmirror and ccd.
But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor
detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected with
a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems trying to use RAID with this
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:56:16PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote:
But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor
detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected
with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems trying to use RAID with
this configuration ?
Not
On June 29, 2005 05:59 pm, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:56:16PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote:
But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor
detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected
with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:23:07 -0700
Philip Wege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to do software raid setup using freebsd ? and if so
where do you set it up ?
Version 5.3
here's a RAID-1 howto : http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote:
I'm looking at building a FreeBSD server with two identical 60GB hard
drives configured with software RAID-1. What would be the best way to
set about this? Vinum or RaidFrame (which it appears from release notes
/ errata doesn't
dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ones have user's had best successes with? My question pertaining to software
raid is is it possible to set it up during the install or do i have to do
the install normally then initiate raid? And which would be better, ccd or
vinum?
If I use vinum I setup a
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