Hi folks! This is my first post here. Hope I didn't post in the wrong forum. :\
I've got a FreeBSD Server in my flat which provides various services for my small homenetwork:
The server has four 250GB S-ATA disks:
I'm not quite sure, why they start at ad4 and not ad1, but I remember back that those two years, when I've installed that machine I've read something reasonably about it.
I don't really care about the safety of my data, but striping four disks... There will be data loss, I guess. I'd absolutely have no problem to make 500GB out of those 1TB if there was a way to stripe and mirror together with GEOM. If there is no such way: No problem. I'll stick to geom_stripe (got the important backups on tape).
Now what I was wondering about: My current setup looks a bit dirty like that:
Yes, you can guess that I'm absolutely not satisfied with that kind of setup. I was wondering if there is a quick and clean solution to undo the join the last three disks and the last slice on the first disk together to one big volume and setup geom_bde on top of that volume.
I've got enough space left to temporarily move the data currently in /mnt/disk* to another machine. So I could setup those disks/partitions/slices from scratch.
What bugs me most: Are there any reasons I shouldnt do this? And more importantly: Has anybody written some kind of documentation/howto on that topic?
I've got a FreeBSD Server in my flat which provides various services for my small homenetwork:
- Mailsystem
- Central database servers (Postgres/MySQL)
- Davical for my Apple Calendars
- And some kind of strange file serving concept including pure-ftpd, apache, samba, nfs....
The server has four 250GB S-ATA disks:
Code:
ad4: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250824AS 3.AAE> at ata2-master SATA150
ad5: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250824AS 3.AAE> at ata2-slave SATA150
ad6: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250824AS 3.AAE> at ata3-master SATA150
ad7: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250824AS 3.AAE> at ata3-slave SATA150I don't really care about the safety of my data, but striping four disks... There will be data loss, I guess. I'd absolutely have no problem to make 500GB out of those 1TB if there was a way to stripe and mirror together with GEOM. If there is no such way: No problem. I'll stick to geom_stripe (got the important backups on tape).
Now what I was wondering about: My current setup looks a bit dirty like that:
Code:
/dev/ad4s1a => /
/dev/ad4s1b => swap
/dev/ad4s1d => /usr
/dev/ad4s1e.bde => /mnt/disk1
/dev/ad5s1d.bde => /mnt/disk2
/dev/ad6s1d.bde => /mnt/disk3
/dev/ad7s1d.bde => /mnt/disk4Yes, you can guess that I'm absolutely not satisfied with that kind of setup. I was wondering if there is a quick and clean solution to undo the join the last three disks and the last slice on the first disk together to one big volume and setup geom_bde on top of that volume.
I've got enough space left to temporarily move the data currently in /mnt/disk* to another machine. So I could setup those disks/partitions/slices from scratch.
What bugs me most: Are there any reasons I shouldnt do this? And more importantly: Has anybody written some kind of documentation/howto on that topic?
