Hi,
After using FreeBSD for about month as my home desktop, I've decided to migrate permanently. Still a newbie, I'd appreciate any advice on my migration plan.
FreeBSD is currently installed on one hdd. I have two other disks, which I want to mirror with geom and do a "dump | restore" over the mirror.
There is an example on gmirroring 2 whole drives in the handbook. What I didn't like in the example is that the swap goes in the mirror also.
I see no good reason to get the paged out data mirrored and even more - putting the swap on different drives would let the kernel use striping hence better speed.
So, I'd like to make a layout like this:
1) Do you guys see any problems with this layout? Any suggestions for a better one?
2) How should I proceed with "bsdlabel" and "gmirror label" - which one first?
Thanks in advance!
After using FreeBSD for about month as my home desktop, I've decided to migrate permanently. Still a newbie, I'd appreciate any advice on my migration plan.
FreeBSD is currently installed on one hdd. I have two other disks, which I want to mirror with geom and do a "dump | restore" over the mirror.
There is an example on gmirroring 2 whole drives in the handbook. What I didn't like in the example is that the swap goes in the mirror also.
I see no good reason to get the paged out data mirrored and even more - putting the swap on different drives would let the kernel use striping hence better speed.
So, I'd like to make a layout like this:
Code:
ad8s1b - 2G swap
ad10s1b - 2G swap
ad[8,10]s2 - mirrored as "gm0"
gm0a 500M /
gm0d 4G /var
gm0e 4G /tmp
gm0f 10G /usr
gm0g <all the rest> /home
1) Do you guys see any problems with this layout? Any suggestions for a better one?
2) How should I proceed with "bsdlabel" and "gmirror label" - which one first?
Thanks in advance!