From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 09:27:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4013F16A4D0; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:27:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EEF43D1D; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:27:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 79932530C; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id A46B95308; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 27F0633C3E; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:09 +0100 (CET) To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <16901.26814.588055.457273@satchel.alerce.com> <16902.27236.71619.138367@satchel.alerce.com> <20050206191209.GC1080@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <16902.28195.6589.299894@satchel.alerce.com> <20050211133917.GA45990@engelschall.com> <16923.20768.336451.133236@satchel.alerce.com> <86k6p0mj7x.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:47:28 +0100") Message-ID: <86u0o3lj82.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 cc: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com cc: "Ralf S. Engelschall" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:27:51 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > George Hartzell writes: > > > I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name > > > if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length. > > This wouldn't be a problem if gmirror, gstripe etc. placed metadata at > > the start of the provider, like God intended, instead of at the end. > You won't be able to boot from the mirror then. That's a special case, and it could have been solved differently (e.g. by teaching the boot loader to recognize gmirror metadata). It does not justify the similar breakage in gstripe and graid3. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no