Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:33:22 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: geom stripe/concat metadata suggestion Message-ID: <20040809113322.GL628@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <1091792300.749.14.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <1091792300.749.14.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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--PpocKf6TCvdC9BKE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:38:21PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: +> Would it be a good idea to store the device name, or something similar, +> in the metadata? +>=20 +> For example, if I have a disk divided like this: +>=20 +> |--------------ad0--------------| +> |-------------ad0s1-------------| +> |----ad0s1g-----|-----ad0s1d----| +>=20 +> The metadata is written into the last sector, so when the stripe/concat +> classes are tasting they can't work out whether it belongs to ad0s1d, +> ad0s1 or ad0. +>=20 +> I've had problems creating stripes and concats with this configuration. I added '-h' option for 'label' command in gconcat(8), gstripe(8) and gmirror(8), which hardcode providers' names into metadata. Thank you. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --PpocKf6TCvdC9BKE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBF2ECForvXbEpPzQRAoHyAKCrZgj2zptO01e45udLiaAeHC7nowCg0cxB UbUspTNDPx1UTbAeVye/mgM= =Cr95 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PpocKf6TCvdC9BKE--
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