From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 01:04:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 BC14B16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:04:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from koyukuk.teamcool.net (koyukuk.teamcool.net [208.39.216.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D17E43D53 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:04:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kgunders@teamcool.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.teamcool.net (TeamCool Rocks) with SMTP id B5D1C11E66 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:04:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.112] (unknown [192.168.1.112]) by koyukuk.teamcool.net (TeamCool Rocks) with ESMTP id 7294911E64 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:04:22 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <41E3261F.5080503@teamcool.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:04:31 -0700 From: Ken Gunderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org References: <20050110163634.GA47526@engelschall.com> <20050111004214.A77092@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050111004214.A77092@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [HOWTO] FreeBSD system disk mirroring with GEOM X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:04:23 -0000 Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:36:34PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > >>FYI: I've prepared a detailed step-by-step command list on how to >>establish a RAID-1 (mirror) for the system partitions with GEOM and >>gmirror(8). You can find the resulting HOWTO document under >>http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > > > Looks good, but: > > It doesn't render too well under Konquerer - the examples are smashed > into a single, very long, line vanishing off the right side of the > screen. fwiw-- doesn't look too good under Firefox either... But I am sure anything that gets slated to the handbook will be translated to docbook anyhow. Ironically, I was also working on a little howto when this came in. I had a couple q's for Ralf that I posted privately since I didn't want to bother the geom dev heads with, but one area I think merits further elaboration prior to publicaton in the handbook is the inconsistencies between labels created via sysinstall gui and bsdlabel from the command line. They threw me for a bit (until I figured out that they were inconsistent) and I am an experienced sysadmin. A relative newbie to FBSD could easily become confused with bsdlabel -e. Especially if, like many new users, they've tried it from sysinstall gui first. A picture is worth a thousand words, so an actual bsdlable -e session might be nice. Ciao-- kg