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Subject: gmirror: Any way to speed mirror build?
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I have to build three boxes with the same configuration (same kernel, 
same disk size, RAID1 gmirror).

Is there any way to build the mirrors more quickly?

For example if I dump the file system on disk1 then newfs and restore 
the dump to disk2 will adding disk2 to the mirror go faster?

If not, is there anyway to make it faster?

m