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On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:36 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition.  The trouble
> I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk.  Now...
> I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes,
> but does gvinum not (yet) load balance on reads?

Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes
of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers
various load-balancing options).

Cheers,

Paul.
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