From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 17:31:01 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 C73561065672 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:31:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joh.hendriks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD448FC0C for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc50 with SMTP id c50so1394676eek.13 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:31:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=O0BEbII4EieN1lX8jH8U8Y5Jrz0g9ZOv2fKpCXuAKQw=; b=ZUazu7zrI8KKAtzPTkvzPZ2fjWj1H5ocQ7iJxkFQ8h2APz4e83SdIbVfXciHDdHygT ZoCYLa7QlewGKyS4YJZrRJ9BALXFXKTknyi56NOeHeXuXkTXIWMmS1DZTFJz0pYbszWf 1dIaI+60zU2ahj7wdHDAidCmrNOyhug7PH6vw= Received: by 10.14.34.5 with SMTP id r5mr305314eea.132.1323365460185; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (5ED0E470.cm-7-1d.dynamic.ziggo.nl. [94.208.228.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 53sm20095598eef.2.2011.12.08.09.30.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:30:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EE0F44F.4080503@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:30:55 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bruno , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <1323208265.19452.15.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4EE08CA8.1060506@brockmann-consult.de> <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 17:31:01 -0000 Sean Bruno schreef: > 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. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html > for the BIG RED WARNING that says why. > >> This guide worked for me: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > That, along with a lot of how to's, is out of date in the FreeBSD 9 > world. I would suspect that my experience of attempting to setup a > mirrored volume won't be unique. > > BSDInstaller and its predecessor Sysinstall don't have any code to > create or destroy zfs(4) or geom(4) volumes. So, the amount of exposure > to real users is approaching 0 in comparison to the number of people who > really do use FreeBSD. > > I have my hands full with other projects at the moment, but I'm more > than happy to grant access to a two disk SATA server if someone wants to > enhance BSDInstall with zfs(4) or geom(4) volume management features. > > At a minimum, you *should* be able to take 2 disks and make a mirrored > volume with either tool. > > Sean also a good guide is here. http://unix-heaven.org/node/24 And gmirror GPT partitions is no problem, only with whole disks is where problems arise. regards Johan Hendriks