Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:18:02 -0800 From: Royce <mroyce@gmail.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror forget question - why forget gm0 instead of ad4? Message-ID: <2b0d6fa20512032018g581dc6feybcf13c05e85af3ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051204004358.GD3698@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <6.2.5.6.2.20051203155803.05950eb0@baac.net> <20051204004358.GD3698@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel, thanks! This is just the info I needed. Now it makes sense, rather than risking running commands I don't understand. Royce On 12/3/05, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > If a drive fails or is not detected, gmirror doesn't know if it was ad4, > da0, da0s1a or anything else, because it discovers components based on > their metadata, not names. By doing 'gmirror forget' you say: "forget > about missing components". Without forgetting missing components you > can't run specific actions, which need to be notes in metadata of all > components. > >
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