From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 14:54:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F052106564A; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luchesar.iliev@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC5D8FC17; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so2890846eyd.13 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:54:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ob5T8fh1z/PH1kjILNuudMQYwK1wVrsS5z47g3CFeIk=; b=gcXEOxA9O/XUynVEuMYFUwbQVZYQsIGPfJqhOtJPUSzQW42PWtUdO16orkpHuajm+L KagZxCqgjPeQlC+7pltiigaczymTMCEu4rZOAX4H8s4cBVQLTiJwFkzJzgI3kXA+exVy 5zbF4GrO5o9G6su/TJe0ZYsIdU0YueckoYOMI= Received: by 10.223.16.82 with SMTP id n18mr17825589faa.2.1318775111936; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [79.124.93.41] ([79.124.93.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r16sm17448218fam.8.2011.10.16.07.25.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9AE945.70600@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:25:09 +0300 From: "Luchesar V. ILIEV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lev@FreeBSD.org, Nicolas Rachinsky , Andrei Kolu References: <165230773.20111016130358@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20111016110526.GA1764@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <1305170562.20111016155117@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <1305170562.20111016155117@serebryakov.spb.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=9A1FEEFF; url=https://cert.acad.bg/pgp-keys/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror failed with error 19. 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: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:01 -0000 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