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Old 4th December 2009
DNAeon DNAeon is offline
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
The gconcat does not provide mirroring, it only creates big logical space from all disks available, like raid0, but without performance gains.

Generally gmirror is currently preferred sollution instead of gvinum.

@Carpetsmoker
This should do the job:
# zpool create POOL mirror DISK0 DISK1
Hello,

Thanks for the replies!

Yes, I know that gconcat doesn't provide mirroring, but it was also part of the problem - I've tried concatenating several slices and then mirror them using gmirror, but that doesn't work out I wanted to have the option to extend the volumes, once I mirror them.

ZFS sounds good, but I don't think it would be of any good for my system - it's an IBM ThinkCentre A50 with 1g of RAM and 2.53GHz CPU. May if I add it 1 or 2 more gigs of RAM it would be reasonable to run ZFS. What do you think? (Please people having experience with ZFS - share your ideas )

Also, if I run ZFS will I be able to extend the volumes after mirroring them - I really want to have that option since it's more likely that new disk(s) will be added to the system.

Thanks and regards,
DNAeon
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