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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:43:59 -0500
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: gmirror Issues
Message-ID:  <1174880639.6259.11.camel@ingress>
In-Reply-To: <4607100B.5050807@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
References:  <4606E163.9000506@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <eu6qvc$ja7$1@sea.gmane.org>  <4607100B.5050807@zircon.seattle.wa.us>

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> The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to 
> take two brand new disk drives and mirror them. 

You're right.  This is a tutorial.

> Nothing in the 
> documentation discusses this.  

The in-tree documentation explains the syntax of the admin commands and
the technical aspects of the subsystem.

> Do you have to create file systems on the 
> drives first? 

No you use the raw devices.

>  Do you have to use fdisk to slice them up?  

You can do that.  It is not required.

> Is there a size limit on drives?  

The size limit would be file-system related; not gmirror.  You're pretty
safe into the terabytes with UFS2

> I am trying to mirror two 400G drives, is this 
> supported?  

Sure, follow the RSE link you were sent.

> There is no information anywhere that I can find about these 
> topics.

Always search the mailing list archives.

> /Joe
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