Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:03:06 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: graid3 not working on partitions Message-ID: <20041124100306.GK7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041124105323.I75386@fw.reifenberger.com> References: <20041124091400.G74665@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041124093356.GJ7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20041124105323.I75386@fw.reifenberger.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: +> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> ... +> >The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the +> >manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector. +> >The gradi3 class uses the last provider's sector to store metadata +> >and if you have 2 or more providers which share this sector you are +> >in troubles. In your case da1, da1s1 and da1s1a providers use the +> >same last sector and graid3 is confused and picks first provider +> >given by GEOM for taste. +> >You should create labels once again and leave the last sector on da1s1 +> >unused, so da1s1 and da1s1a don't end at the same offset. +> > +> +> Ah, I'll try. +> Would it be possible to use the first sector? For metadata? No. I use last sector in all my classes, so you can boot without problems from gmirror provider. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBpFxaForvXbEpPzQRAm4nAKCkibwRiJAt4bz2ABnXIN+j+qYcnwCgxFkD Zh32Zq9dOQkqTeindBYdz6c= =wSdb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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