Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:58:52 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider Message-ID: <20050222235852.GW9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <16901.26814.588055.457273@satchel.alerce.com> <16902.27236.71619.138367@satchel.alerce.com> <20050206191209.GC1080@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <16902.28195.6589.299894@satchel.alerce.com> <20050211133917.GA45990@engelschall.com> <16923.20768.336451.133236@satchel.alerce.com> <86k6p0mj7x.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:47:28AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: +> +> George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> writes: +> +> > I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name +> +> > if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length. +> +> +> +> This wouldn't be a problem if gmirror, gstripe etc. placed metadata at +> +> the start of the provider, like God intended, instead of at the end. +> +> You won't be able to boot from the mirror then. ...and metadata at the begining of the provider still doesn't fix 'c' partition problem and 'a' partition which starts at sector 0, which is the default start offset in sysinstall. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCG8c8ForvXbEpPzQRAnlsAJ9iTVtWGDcEVher6QClbnNRZYP+cwCdFIQd wNY6SHSo9ZoPjnt+j5jmNDs= =G+qP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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