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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:26:00 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Tomas Palfi <tpalfi@phoenixmedical.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum or gvinum
Message-ID:  <20050908122600.GI20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F53D@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk>
References:  <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F53D@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk>

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Tomas Palfi wrote:
> I thought I could check previous gvinum config with the gvinum> list
> command in its own shell. When I run this command for either gvinum or
> vinum, they both reported no volumes.

You should be able to use the list command to view the configuration. It's
just that I'd start with a clean slate so to speak.

> Also I noticed that you have IDE hard drives, whereas I have SCSI, would
> that matter?

Not that I know. To gvinum, they're just drives.

By the way, you can also consider geom_mirror, for which an excellent
article is available here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

Both gvinum and gmirror approaches are able to boot from a mirrored system
disk. It depends on other factors which one you choose.

> Thank you

No problem.

--Stijn

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