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gstripe

The gstripe utility is used for setting up a stripe (RAID-0) on two or more disks on a FreeBSD System.
The striped device can be configured using two different methods:
“manual” or “automatic”. When using the “manual” method, no metadata are
stored on the devices, so the striped device has to be configured by hand
every time it is needed. The “automatic” method uses on-disk metadata to
detect devices. Once devices are labeled, they will be automatically
detected and configured.

Usage

• Manual Creation

gstripe create [-v] [-s stripesize] name prov prov	...

• Automatic Creation

gstripe label [-hv] [-s stripesize] name prov prov	...

• Destroy Stripe

gstripe destroy [-fv] name	...
gstripe stop [-fv]	name ...

• Clear metadata on device

gstripe clear [-v]	prov ...

• Status of stripes

gstripe list
gstripe status