Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:25:09 +0300 From: "Luchesar V. ILIEV" <luchesar.iliev@gmail.com> To: lev@FreeBSD.org, Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-mas-0@ml.turing-complete.org>, Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror failed with error 19. Message-ID: <4E9AE945.70600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1305170562.20111016155117@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <CAKWzaHa4jhcOb_zm0EkpjwGA0i%2BUck3Vv_Fa0U7=RsfktjQPCw@mail.gmail.com> <165230773.20111016130358@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20111016110526.GA1764@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <1305170562.20111016155117@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On 16/10/2011 14:51, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Nicolas. > You wrote 16 октября 2011 г., 15:05:26: > >> Of course you have to create the gpt inside the gmirror, not on the >> same device the gmirror is based on. The warnings occur, when the gpt >> is seen on the real disk. But later the gpt on the gmirror is used, >> and on the device created by gmirror, gpt uses the last sector of that >> device. > >> I hope this will not change. > Problem is, that new BIOSes could refuse to boot from disk with such > misplaced (from raw disk's and BIOS' point of view) secondary GPT. > > Probably I'm missing something, but why not do the opposite: configure any gmirrors on top of the GPT partitions? That's at least what I do for my swap volumes, although, admittedly, I'm also heavily using ZFS, which means I don't have many partitions (2 to 3 at most). Cheers, Luchesar -- i.dea.is/luchesar
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