Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:58:22 +0000 From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror on different sized disks Message-ID: <20060818225822.GA33984@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <62782.209.103.215.99.1155934077.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <62782.209.103.215.99.1155934077.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:47:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > Until just a few moments ago, I thought I had identical sized drives > (arrays, really) on my i386 6.1-STABLE box. > > I was trying to create a gmirror on ar1 from ar0 when gmirror reported > to me: Provider ar1 too small. > > my dmesg reports: > ar0: 152638MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 128 KB)> status: READY > ar1: 152637MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID0 (stripe 128 KB)> status: READY > > So it would seem I'm 1MB away from being able to create a "whole disk" > mirror of ar0 on ar1. > > Is my only recourse to mirror individual slices, as described in > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ ?? > > Thanks for any help/pointers/suggestions. Use your smaller disk as the first drive your insert into the mirror and I think you'll be ok. -Jason
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