From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 30 05:52:37 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 35EAB16A469 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.63]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D950613C46E for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 46957 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Jun 2007 05:52:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=iQHj1HmY+AzTz0TuxybQYd/p3bniHNirZi38AQGj38QxG/wRk3K3ddiqtmmR6LAWpCr2ME8GpDhIfo9T7LAFqNK6bRpmC22SCBHk2ZlhyiJeaV3eD5C+iOep09Q3SWKWqun1eGDHsAvg8SIkqat4UEKBdfR8HS8Mp9/15YkKiLA=; X-YMail-OSG: jIQ.7GYVM1mUD299lA5NGMwy3QCY7eARND7526INV6qOca2zzZCj4VzEjHFC4eqeyMj4gpTR_5lECGqc_503e.rKr9IhO2MEji91Qo99iAeEm0lqQeQrblYB4w-- Received: from [89.53.47.217] by web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:52:36 PDT Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek In-Reply-To: <20070629220604.GA28006@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <99891.46426.qm@web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:52:37 -0000 --- Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > 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. > Because he wants to use the whole device for his "home" file system... So he just introduces a 16 sectors offset... > > 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). > Cool...! -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz