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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:29:43PM -0400, James Snow wrote:
> 
> You can hot add/remove drives out of a gvinum partition as well.  I'll
> grant that it was somewhat ungraceful, but I did this recently when I
> needed to duplicate a machine in a hurry.  It worked very well.

To clarify:  The ungraceful bit was that I did this without taking the
source machine down or out of production.  So the clone had to fsck at
boot, since all of its volumes were uncleanly unmounted.  Otherwise it
was a perfectly graceful operation.  

There was no negative commentary about FreeBSD or gmirror here.  They
worked perfectly, and the production box never missed a beat.


-Snow