From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 14:38:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD891065676 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com (mail-gx0-f214.google.com [209.85.217.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64EB8FC14 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so3873449gxk.13 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:38:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=i2wOI3XQegI3YCbvZl0uq5QV4Di3wC7ryuXULjdWTxg=; b=NEt86s7Zrs8mlZD2iHGoVnubfiPD3EFHHrMCUYse8pQxWweDvWZpKMw+NTJ5KStGkY VKAMx4v1iwa1jKwOrpVL31FiEPnceRsWJI0q5hUQ86aCHYQGA4YWZhwaGj9RhB5GmCP4 oi2fnDGj3JVndw2qd67Ffdq2HfVLm+UsXDaug= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Jwzkdx+oeCrxJty1JqhjFLBck9P+ekKH4DdgPiKic4T0oXF6DWH1HsQW1cn/hT/M7S Xy16Cvc+RKrEqyfkIcHGprktA7rQIlFGVO64IaIMJPa0HucEs/78ZL4HvHScfq9B9Ghd wkpl1GwzMzgygHvAN2hihIvQaXED3eLiFpABE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.100.17 with SMTP id x17mr8241625ybb.138.1255963118196; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:38:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6201873e0910190737o1d849953h6761085ba532f8f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADC6D89.10600@videotron.ca> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57086@w2003s01.double-l.local> <4ADC772F.3060303@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190729v12f66335xe93d0c83a0ee7aee@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC794F.3050505@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190737o1d849953h6761085ba532f8f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:38:38 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910190738l7b65e0ep76a3cfb9ffdf7bb4@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: PJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Johan Hendriks , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel clarification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:39 -0000 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ wrote: > >> Adam Vande More wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > > wrote: >> > >> > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would >> > work; I am >> > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can >> update >> > with changes on the master machine from time to time and thus >> prevent >> > data loss in case of problems. So I use ad12 as the main system; if >> it >> > were to crash I would then boot from ad6 which is identical. But the >> > /etc/fstab is identical in both machines. So if I boot from ad6, I >> > will >> > get booted from ad12 ... so that doesn't work. It looks like we >> > need an >> > unique identifier for each disk. >> > >> > >> > Why not use gmirror? >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Adam Vande More >> because I am not using RAID. :-( >> > > gmirror + ggated = disk or slice replicated to remote system > > > gmirror + ggated = disk or partition replicated to remote system -- Adam Vande More