Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:20:24 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-mas-0@ml.turing-complete.org>, lev@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror failed with error 19. Message-ID: <1977197077.20111016202024@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <4E9B033A.6080103@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAKWzaHa4jhcOb_zm0EkpjwGA0i%2BUck3Vv_Fa0U7=RsfktjQPCw@mail.gmail.com> <165230773.20111016130358@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20111016110526.GA1764@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <1305170562.20111016155117@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4E9B033A.6080103@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, Andrey. You wrote 16 =CF=CB=D4=D1=C2=D2=D1 2011 =C7., 20:15:54: >>> Of course you have to create the gpt inside the gmirror, not on the >>> same device the gmirror is based on. The warnings occur, when the gpt >>> is seen on the real disk. But later the gpt on the gmirror is used, >>> and on the device created by gmirror, gpt uses the last sector of that >>> device. >>> I hope this will not change. > Yes, it works as you have described. As we can see, it doesn't work as described for some users. And, again, think about picking up GPT from mirror component, as reported by many others. > Can you give an example which motherboard does not work? No. But any EFI-bases or Hybrid BIOS (with traditional BIOS, but 2Tb+ HDD and GPT support from EFI) could be surprised. > Our boot process uses PMBR and we are not expecting that BIOS has known > anything about GPT. So it should work. If BIOS has known about GPT then > it is EFI firmware. Oh, by "BIOS" I mean any motherboard firmware, of course. BIOS is very generic term, basic input/output system, so EFI firmware is BIOS by definition of "BIOS" term itself, IMHO. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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