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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:16 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au>
Cc:        "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure
Message-ID:  <20060828153716.GB64750@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au>
References:  <20060828102151.94147.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au>

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:45:25PM +0930, Alastair Watts wrote:
> Hi Arne,
>=20
> R. B. Riddick wrote:
>=20
> >I say, did u consider migrating to gmirror or graid3?
> >Or even graid5? ;-))
>=20
> I use gmirror as much as I can! I used gvinum this time though as the dis=
ks are slightly different.. ad0 is 38166MB while ad2 is 38204MB and as far =
as I know, drives need=20
> to be identical sizes for gmirror to work.
>=20
> Is there a way to use gmirror with these two drives?

	# gmirror label foo ad0 ad2

The size of the mirror will be the size of the smallest component minus
one sector.

If you don't want to lose space, you should partition bigger disk and
mirror smaller disk with partition of the bigger disk.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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