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From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
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Subject: Re: When will gmirror work in FreeBSD 5?
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:03:41PM -0600, Schlake (William Colburn) wrote:

> Is this the right mailing list to ask in?  I've heard that gmirror still
> works in FreeBSD 4.  Should I downgrade?

As pointed out, it is not a gmirror issue, but an issue with ATA code,
that happens with enough rarity to make it tricky to fix.  As pointed
out, there is no gmirror in 4.x, BUT you can mirror using atacontrol, or
vinum, or whatever.

-danny