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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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