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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: RAID 1 via ataraid(4)
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According to David Schultz:
> Good point, thanks. I'd forgotten that gmirror stores its metadata
> at the end of the drive instead of at the beginning as ccd does.
> Nevertheless, I'd be interested in what people's experiences have
> been with ataraid(4), particularly since it's more flexible in
> terms of putting multiple operating systems on different
> partitions of the same mirror.

You know you can use gmirror on either whole drives or on specific slices,
right?
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