All,

is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then divide
that stripe set up using soft partitions ?

as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
into multiple partitions/slices.

or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?


cheers

Paul

Hi Paul, yes is posible, try in google: (soft partitions stripe) and
read this:

http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/soft-partitions.html
and man metainit, metadb, metastat

Salu2

Mariano


p@p.com ha escrito:

> All,
>
> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then divide
> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?
>
> as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
> into multiple partitions/slices.
>
> or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?
>
>
> cheers
>
> Paul

Hi,

All I can find is to create equal soft partitions and then create a strip
set, I was hoping to do it the other way wrong, make one big strip set and
then carve up, which I don't think is possible.

Thanks for the reply.


"Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155286223.400779.60360@74g2000cwt.googlegrou ps.com...
> Hi Paul, yes is posible, try in google: (soft partitions stripe) and
> read this:
>
> http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/soft-partitions.html
> and man metainit, metadb, metastat
>
> Salu2
>
> Mariano
>
>
> p@p.com ha escrito:
>
>> All,
>>
>> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then divide
>> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?
>>
>> as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
>> into multiple partitions/slices.
>>
>> or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Paul
>

p@p.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All I can find is to create equal soft partitions and then create a strip
> set, I was hoping to do it the other way wrong, make one big strip set and
> then carve up, which I don't think is possible.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>
> "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1155286223.400779.60360@74g2000cwt.googlegrou ps.com...
>> Hi Paul, yes is posible, try in google: (soft partitions stripe) and
>> read this:
>>
>> http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/soft-partitions.html
>> and man metainit, metadb, metastat
>>
>> Salu2
>>
>> Mariano
>>
>>
>> p@p.com ha escrito:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then divide
>>> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?
>>>
>>> as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
>>> into multiple partitions/slices.
>>>
>>> or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Paul
>
>

See the "Layering" section in the above mentioned document

--
-larry

Old age and treachery will always win out over youth and energy.

Duh, Thanks for pointing out what I should of read myself.

Cheers

Paul

"ld kelley (larry)" <nojunk2@ldkelley.com> wrote in message
news:45FDg.3776$Qf.2067@newsread2.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> p@p.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> All I can find is to create equal soft partitions and then create a strip
>> set, I was hoping to do it the other way wrong, make one big strip set
>> and then carve up, which I don't think is possible.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>> "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1155286223.400779.60360@74g2000cwt.googlegrou ps.com...
>>> Hi Paul, yes is posible, try in google: (soft partitions stripe) and
>>> read this:
>>>
>>> http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/soft-partitions.html
>>> and man metainit, metadb, metastat
>>>
>>> Salu2
>>>
>>> Mariano
>>>
>>>
>>> p@p.com ha escrito:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then
>>>> divide
>>>> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?
>>>>
>>>> as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
>>>> into multiple partitions/slices.
>>>>
>>>> or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>
>>
>
> See the "Layering" section in the above mentioned document
>
> --
> -larry
>
> Old age and treachery will always win out over youth and energy.

Try something like this:

metainit d100 1 3 c0t1d0s0 c0t2d0s0 ct03d0s0
metainit d200 -p d100 2g
metainit d201 -p d100 2g
etc.

This will create a stripe metadevice out of c0t1d0s0 c0t2d0s0 ct03d0s0
and then two soft partitions d200 and d201 each 2g on top of the stripe
device.

If you wanted to grow the soft partitions in the future simply do
something like "metattach d200 2g" and then run growfs on the active
filesystem.


-Jeff

On 2006-08-10, p@p.com <p@p.com> wrote:

> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then divide
> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?

Yep. metainit your base stripe and then create soft partitions using
metainit. The man page provides examples.

--
Andre