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From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure
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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


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