From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 13 07:58:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D1C16A419 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:58:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A515C13C46E for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:58:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so290616rvb for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:58:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=kg23OstDPEkhIv1Rh3rmXUoDPQyX3IPEGLgXHXQbgBQ=; b=O/EwX8F+tvQA2UsCMVHCEKT/dNUgznYErTuMvPujl86WLQQVHN9tf+vRVE3AwOC1zq1Uox/vRJdjHnUGgzHVxSB2gPnyn1xLYhgYyvXisOltAuWtuVy6TQXNR/iB5aaCd4X1bO6AiT3HQsFzw7Dr5pWQFOQXXjmcd1CuWkka5cA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S4lmdOeDrp7MSbm+KRPijGr7V/jo0ad+BG9S5p8v1U2iAP8/G0z34cLm2fN6e/g3pQarD+1Ly7EBIlBilg3zKF27K8jlBlsy0SYCXMLiQpq5qtnUpc+ZQ6OWzIeUXoLJNknvhr/MHhuAbyqKfyDQF8ou1yor9xnP+a6nzWX6CLQ= Received: by 10.141.66.2 with SMTP id t2mr59259rvk.1189670334957; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.77.8 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50709130058t4da17e86wf5f33f05816efb6b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:58:54 +0200 From: "n j" To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <92bcbda50709120843o6af4bd38v8725be3f5b765b0e@mail.gmail.com> <46E87D0C.5000300@nokia.com> <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl> Subject: Re: Gmirror on a partition of a slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:58:56 -0000 > You can mirror any GEOM providers, which includes disks, slices, > partitions, encrypted providers, RAID0/RAID3 devices, ZFS volumes, GEOM > gate devices, and more. Anything you can probe with diskinfo(8) can be > mirrored (and used for other GEOM classes too). It's more than that. You > can even mix providers from different GEOM classes, eg: As Pawel confirmed, partitions can be used as gmirror consumers. Perhaps the problem I'm running into is that I'm trying to boot off a gmirror'ed partition? I.e. maybe you can boot if you mirror a whole disk or a slice, but if you partition a disk and use only one partition for a mirror, then you can't boot. Could that be the problem? Thanks, -- Nino