From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 15:38:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7310916A4DA for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984CC43D5A for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:37:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4B0BE51395; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4686351394; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Alastair Watts Message-ID: <20060828153716.GB64750@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060828102151.94147.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: "R. B. Riddick" , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure 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, 28 Aug 2006 15:38:08 -0000 --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE8w2rForvXbEpPzQRAr85AJ4o50MhU/ID1HcymVfTz6ggVpH2fACgxFbO 3Hv818QnWcteIiIzpXHc+aQ= =B5Os -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--