From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 09:51:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693D716A417 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D83E13C467 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ieoxy-00008N-3l for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:31:58 -0700 Message-ID: <13093339.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: cyberdinn To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50709130058t4da17e86wf5f33f05816efb6b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: f.lesage@orange.fr References: <92bcbda50709120843o6af4bd38v8725be3f5b765b0e@mail.gmail.com> <46E87D0C.5000300@nokia.com> <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl> <92bcbda50709130058t4da17e86wf5f33f05816efb6b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Gmirror on a partition of a slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:51:48 -0000 Could someone confirm its impossible to boot off a mirrored partition ? else explain how to do it ? Thanks a lot. n j wrote: > >> You can mirror any GEOM providers, which includes disks, slices, >> partitions, encrypted providers, RAID0/RAID3 devices, ZFS volumes, GEOM >> gate devices, and more. Anything you can probe with diskinfo(8) can be >> mirrored (and used for other GEOM classes too). It's more than that. You >> can even mix providers from different GEOM classes, eg: > > As Pawel confirmed, partitions can be used as gmirror consumers. > Perhaps the problem I'm running into is that I'm trying to boot off a > gmirror'ed partition? I.e. maybe you can boot if you mirror a whole > disk or a slice, but if you partition a disk and use only one > partition for a mirror, then you can't boot. Could that be the > problem? > > Thanks, > -- > Nino > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gmirror-on-a-partition-of-a-slice-tf4430405.html#a13093339 Sent from the freebsd-geom mailing list archive at Nabble.com.