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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To: Christian Caron <christian.caron@videotron.ca>
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:18:40PM -0400, Christian Caron wrote:
+> Hi,
+>=20
+> my setup is:
+>=20
+> - one disk ad0 (15GB) with FreeBSD 5.3 installed
+> - two identical disks ad2 and ad3 (15GB) with no data on it
+>=20
+> I just want to have a mirrored data disk (consisting of two identical=20
+> disks).
+>=20
+> I found http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/, but it applies for=20
+> mirroring a system disk.
+>=20
+> I went through:
+>=20
+> gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0s1 /dev/ad3s1
+> gmirror load
+> gmirror configure -a gm0s1
+> gmirror insert gm0s1 /dev/ad2s1
+> add 'geom_mirror_load=3D"YES"' in /boot/loader.conf
+>=20
+> It loads ok and if I type:
+>=20
+> "gmirror list"
+>=20
+> I get the "Providers" and "Consumers" list which all looks ok.
+>=20
+> But how do I access the mirror? Where can I put my data?
+>=20
+> I tried adding /dev/mirror/gm0s1 to /etc/fstab, but it dies when loading=
...
+>=20
+> Any hints?

Just to be sure: did you create file system on it?

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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