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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:42:52 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gconcat and gpt
Message-ID:  <459D045C.6020906@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0701022200i7a2cb356g358a1938d620e97a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0701022200i7a2cb356g358a1938d620e97a@mail.gmail.com>

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On 01/03/07 00:00, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 6.2-RC1 on an i386 box. I'm testing gjournal patch.
> I found that something is annoying... I use
> 
> gconcat label big da1 da2 da3
> 
> and then running gpt on the concat/big device. So, I got
> concat/bigp1, concat/bigp2, ... etc *AND* I also have
> da1p1, da1p2... Well, this is not a problem for normal use. However,
> when I enable gjournal, at boot time, gconcat first activates the
> big one then, gjournal finds there is journal data on da1p1, so
> it uses! Then, da1 is deactivated from gconcat...
> 
> My question is, why I got da1p1 when da1 is used by gconcat?

Did you use gjournal against the da* devices, or the gconcat device?  If 
you ever used it on the da* devices, the meta data might still be there 
confusing things.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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