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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:35:30 -0500
From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.net>
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To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Gmirror vs 10 Release-P12
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On 11/14/2014 02:37 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On 11/14/14 02:16, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> is the gmirror kernel module loaded?

Yes.

> Without the kernel module you can label devices but every other
> operation needs support from the kernel

I know.

As mentioned I did the install a few times like this:
* Install OS
* gmirror
* Update

And after udpate had issues.

That is when I tried

* Install OS
* Update
* gmirror

And noticed that gmirror would report adding the device, but nothing 
would show in status.