Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:06:04 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Arne =?iso-8859-2?Q?W=F6rner?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: Harry Newton <hn+freebsd@yewbarrow.net>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror on a slice uncertainty Message-ID: <20070629220604.GA28006@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <186446.9762.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <87odiy3lpa.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net> <186446.9762.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 07:46:33AM -0700, Arne Wörner wrote: [...] > I wouldnt use a bsdlabel on the gmirror device Why? It's perfectly safe and useful. > I wouldnt share the same last sector for any GEOM entity (disk, slice, > partition, device)... My GEOM classes knows how to deal with it. If configured properly, each provider has different size and this is enough for them to find the right one. For example ad0s1a is 16 sectors shorter than ad0s1, which i 63 sectors shorter than ad0 (when we have one slice covering entire disk and one partition covering entire slice). -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGhYJMForvXbEpPzQRAknZAKDcDsmKREofRVSJa49m9EUT04BY9wCdG/H/ cgTcZljIi21B0/7TlHkdPGk= =W2pz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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