Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:29:55 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: Re: gmirror and the UFS file systems Message-ID: <200811281829.58003.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200811281008.19578.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200811281008.19578.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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On Friday 28 November 2008 18:08:19 Andrew Falanga wrote:
> I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches
> website server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the
> install (most importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read
> in the manual pages that the data for the mirror is contained in the last
> sector of the drive/partitions. So, I want to mirror the entire drive
> (ad4) to the second drive (ad5). This server doesn't yet have much data at
> all. I'm wondering if I turn on this mirror, will anything important be
> overwritten in the last sector?
I've converted UFS filesystems with just the base install and a few ports over
to gmirror many times and no problem.
I guess the question can best be paraphrased as:
"If I cross a street in a residential area at 4am in the morning, will I get
hit by a car?"
Also, gmirror create will tell you if the last sector contains data, just like
a driver would honk his horn.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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