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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: RAID 1 via ataraid(4)
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 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?

Right, but that doesn't magically cause the other partitions to be
mirrored, and it requires manual relabelling when a drive is
replaced.