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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: Handbook mirroring section
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Hiroki Sato wrote:

> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote
>  in <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206040653380.97869@wonkity.com>:
>
> wb> This procedure works well when the new drive's capacity is no larger
> wb> than the old drive's capacity.
> wb>
> wb> The problem I had was when the new drive was larger than the old
> wb> drive. gmirror creates a mirror on the new, larger drive using the
> wb> full space available (1T).  The old drive (250G, say) can't be
> wb> inserted in this mirror because it's not large enough.
>
> Ah, true.  I did not notice the pitfall.  I updated the diff to solve
> the issue:
>
>  http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/FreeBSD/geom-mirror-2.html
>  http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/FreeBSD/geom-chapter.20120605.diff
>
> I used g_nop and g_zero to limit the capacity of gmirror.  It is a
> hack but it should work.

Nice!  So you create a fake disk with the right size to trick gmirror 
into limiting the mirror size.  (Should it be 'gnop destroy'ed before 
the 'gmirror forget'?)

It's a little tricky.  What do you think about having two sections, one 
for how to create a standard mirror from scratch, and one for converting 
a single-disk system to a mirror?

> Maybe gmirror should support a capacity option as you pointed out...

I really should have entered a PR, and will do that now.