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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2011 18:52:59 -0400
From:      Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r222079 - head/usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend
Message-ID:  <4DD44DCB.6000000@pcbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110518211236.GD2273@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <201105182038.p4IKcT7Q007568@svn.freebsd.org> <20110518211236.GD2273@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On 05/18/11 17:12, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:38:29PM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>> Author: jpaetzel
>> Date: Wed May 18 20:38:28 2011
>> New Revision: 222079
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222079
>>
>> Log:
>>    Wipeout the end of disks, home to things like gmirror metadata, backup GPT tables,
>>    and other potential evil.
>
> If geom_mirror.ko is loaded it won't work, as gmirror keeps its
> components open for writing. But if this is GENERIC and geom_mirror.ko
> is not loaded, you should be fine.
>

Before it gets to this point it does a check and stops / clears any 
gmirrors on the particular disk(s), so hopefully this wont be an issue.


-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems



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