From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 09:06:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FB616A416; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:06:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew_buckland@wordbank.com) Received: from mail.wordbank.com (mail.wordbank.com [213.86.82.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0925C43D5A; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:05:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew_buckland@wordbank.com) Received: from 10.1.1.227 by mail.wordbank.com ([10.1.1.10]) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:28 -0000 Received: by mcmatt (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 34B3262AE9; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:57 +0000 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Message-ID: <20061120090356.GA11952@wordbank.com> References: <20061115102951.GA14794@wordbank.com> <20061117224624.GL63195@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061117224624.GL63195@garage.freebsd.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: matthew_buckland@wordbank.com(Matt Buckland) X-Authenticated-Sender: matthew_buckland X-Server: VPOP3 V1.5.4 - Registered Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gconcat, convert manual to automatic 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, 20 Nov 2006 09:06:15 -0000 > > You cannot directly convert from manual configuration to automatic > configuration, because automatic mode uses on-disk metadata, which is > placed in last sector of every component. > Doing 'gconcat label' on components with file system overwritten some > sectors, which could corrupt your file system and also components are > now one sectors smaller, so everything after first component moved a > bit. You should try manual configuration again and dump/restore your > data or stay with manual configuration if your file system is not > corrupted. > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl > pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! OK, I'll do that. Thankyou for clarifying that. -- Matthew Buckland, Network / Support Analyst Wordbank Limited 33 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RR Direct line: +44 (0) 20 7903 8847 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 8888