From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 16:07:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36271065670 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680538FC22 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfr13 with SMTP id fr13so2620844vbb.13 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:07:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I5Q/ElNiphQZQTD9IjgegB11DvkTV/sks1Hnas1tbmI=; b=qTYQRab6WUeWzDjle6XwqO11JJVrlneizQ+KIB3SQwcEdjQYyY3isqyfrPtTPt5KOz urMdkhbysc5q5aAx32QDkDkruFiqzR06/xe7R/l7abJ0DLpKv2QmFn9bI7oZIYoNRu2N Kh685GrUlr3q9/4cHLt54WAno7tMVS0l7qqSQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.33.239 with SMTP id u15mr2036645vdi.49.1323360464601; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:07:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.172.240 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 08:07:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1323208265.19452.15.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4EE08CA8.1060506@brockmann-consult.de> <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:07:44 +0000 Message-ID: From: Tom Evans To: Sean Bruno Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Peter Maloney Subject: Re: Dog Food X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:07:45 -0000 On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 02:08 -0800, Peter Maloney wrote: >> And what problems did you run into? >> > > More or less, trying to do gmirror(4) style mirroring on GPT partitions > doesn't work. =C2=A0See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.h= tml > for the BIG RED WARNING that says why. > Er, gmirroring GPT _partitions_ works just fine. It is when you try to gmirror an entire disk that is partitioned with GPT that you have issues, as gmirror trashes the secondary GPT table at the end of the disk. You do not have that issue with individual GPT partitions. Cheers Tom