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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:54:33 -0600
From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: gmirror on a laptop.
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List;

I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has 
a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. 
I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able.

What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I 
shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get 
familiar with gmirror, so go for it.

Thanks,
Patrick