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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2012 18:41:58 +0400
From:      Darren Baginski <kickbsd@yandex.com>
To:        Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GPT + gmirror
Message-ID:  <490401335883318@web25d.yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4F97F5A5.9080807@ulb.ac.be>
References:  <4F97F5A5.9080807@ulb.ac.be>

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There is a way.
Here are the results 
http://www.opennet.ru/tips/2681_freebsd_gpt_raid_gmirror.shtml (in Russian)
http://translate.yandex.com/ will provide meaningful translation to French/German/English or use your favorite translation service.

25.04.2012, 17:01, "Julien Cigar" <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>:
> Hello,
>
> I wondered if there is a way to gmirroring the whole disk (not slices
> separately) when using GPT?
>
> GPT puts its metadata at the end of the disk, and when I start to use
> gmirror it overwrites the GPT metadata (... as gmirror puts also its
> metadata at the end of the disk ...).
>
> I noticed a new option in the newfs manpage:
>
> -r reserved
> The size, in sectors, of reserved space at the end of the partiā€
> tion specified in special. This space will not be occupied by
> the file system; it can be used by other consumers such as
> geom(4). Defaults to 0.
>
> I wondered if it could help .. ? Why does it default to 0?
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
>
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