From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 22:06:22 2007 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 0FC4516A400 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B7A13C45D for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id C095B487F7; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:06:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (cvl74.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.19.93.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB80456B1; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:06:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:06:04 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Arne =?iso-8859-2?Q?W=F6rner?= Message-ID: <20070629220604.GA28006@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <87odiy3lpa.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net> <186446.9762.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <186446.9762.qm@web30309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 Cc: Harry Newton , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror on a slice uncertainty 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: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:06:22 -0000 --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 07:46:33AM -0700, Arne W=F6rner 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). --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGhYJMForvXbEpPzQRAknZAKDcDsmKREofRVSJa49m9EUT04BY9wCdG/H/ cgTcZljIi21B0/7TlHkdPGk= =W2pz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--