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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:52:18 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-stable-0@ml.turing-complete.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL
Message-ID:  <20061019215218.GA127@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061019170950.GP71084@decibel.org>
References:  <453531C9.7080304@freebsd.org> <20061017230722.GH8866@gargantuan.com> <20061018120336.H42237@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20061018220446.02eae2e1.ota@j.email.ne.jp> <20061019170950.GP71084@decibel.org>

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* "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> [2006-10-19 12:09 -0500]:
> The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, gmirror
> in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the other that
> doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time.

You can wipe one of the disks, create a gmirror with only one
provider. Then you can copy the data. Afterwards you can wipe the
second disk and add it to the gmirror. Or am I missing something?

Nicolas

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http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas



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