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Subject: Re: gmirror forget question - why forget gm0 instead of ad4?
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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:
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> 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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