From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 10:42:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1428B16A420 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC7813C4AA for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ieq3n-00038r-DK for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:03 +0000 Received: from 78-0-80-105.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.80.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:03 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-80-105.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:41:41 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <92bcbda50709120843o6af4bd38v8725be3f5b765b0e@mail.gmail.com> <46E87D0C.5000300@nokia.com> <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl> <92bcbda50709130058t4da17e86wf5f33f05816efb6b@mail.gmail.com> <13093339.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC401BDE25583D9E680A2D61D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-80-105.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <13093339.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news Subject: Re: Gmirror on a partition of a slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:30 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC401BDE25583D9E680A2D61D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cyberdinn wrote: > Could someone confirm its impossible to boot off a mirrored partition ?= In case of gmirror, unlikely. > else explain how to do it ?=20 Up to the point hte kernel really kicks in, all you have are separate, disconnected drives, partitions, etc. The boot process will run off one of the mirrored partition pair just like it's a "normal" partition. Your loader.conf should point to a "normal" partition (before mirroring), and your fstab should point to gmirror device. --------------enigC401BDE25583D9E680A2D61D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHCgllldnAQVacBcgRAkRdAJ9x5TdAoQUIqSRleqwfMx15BReNfQCgkbGO z0C7nWAikZrxMaIyrrONNgc= =+MIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC401BDE25583D9E680A2D61D--