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From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure
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--- Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> wrote:
> > Nope... As far as I now the user-land part of geom_mirror (gmirror) builds
> the
> > minimum during the "create" and "label" procedure...
> 
> Assuming you specify both drives during the procedure. If you're trying 
> to preserve data on one of the drives to be mirrored then there'd be a 
> problem wouldn't there?
> 
OK... Then u might be right. But then u could use gnop to make it look like to
disk is smaller than it really is (option -s)...

-Arne

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