[geeks] Eeeek

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 09:01 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Yes, but that doesent make it any easier to setup to begin with.
> I hate having to make metadata slices by hand, instead of vxvm where
> you just say "add this disk".  Then you tell it "do x with these disks".

Of course, a 10-second shell script will allow you to partition a mass 
of drives all at once...

> I kinda cheated tho, on my DS setup on this machine - I put the metadata
> slices on a couple of unused small drives, then just made the mirrored 
> stripes
> out of c1t<x>d0s2 on four drives.  That way I didnt have to manualy 
> repartition
> them first...

Kids today.  Always want to use slice c ...er... 2.  Don'tcha know that 
is a bad habit?

-Grumpy old UNIX fart.