Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:58:54 +0200 From: "n j" <nino80@gmail.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmirror on a partition of a slice Message-ID: <92bcbda50709130058t4da17e86wf5f33f05816efb6b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <92bcbda50709120843o6af4bd38v8725be3f5b765b0e@mail.gmail.com> <46E87D0C.5000300@nokia.com> <20070913045533.GB8274@garage.freebsd.pl>
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> 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
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