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From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:02:50 +0700
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Subject: Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
> Granted, there may be reasons why it wasn't done like this in the
> beginning, but my non-GEOM programmer's eyes can't see any.

I believe one of the reason is it would prevent conversion from
non-gmirror disk to gmirror one as explained here

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html