Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:52:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure Message-ID: <20060828135223.77114.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44F2F3C5.7090001@pett.com.au>
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--- Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> wrote: > R. B. Riddick wrote: > > Will gmirror work with slices? I thought it worked on the physical drive > layer.. > Yes. Every geom class should work with every geom device... Since disks and slices and partitions are implemented as geom class today, gmirror should work with slices and partitions... > > 2. just use gmirror and hope that it build the minimum of both sizes (which > it > > does actually I think; so u do not have to hope very much...)... > > Haven't tried that, but have wondered if it will work. I guess you would > have to use the smaller of the drives as the initial drive to base the > mirror on. > Nope... As far as I now the user-land part of geom_mirror (gmirror) builds the minimum during the "create" and "label" procedure... > I'd still like to hear from someone who knows the insides of gvinum as > to their opinion on the earlier reported incident. > Dont know if there are any... -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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