Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:00:18 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building a mirror in a partition Message-ID: <41556BE2.5060803@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040924074925.GD9550@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <4153441A.9010303@withagen.nl> <20040924074925.GD9550@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:46:02PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >+> Hi, >+> >+> I'm trying to build a geom mirror on 2 partitions on 2 different disks. >+> Below you can see that the partitioning should be correct. >+> But everytime I try to create the mirror, it seems to forget the 'h' on >+> the second disk and take the whole disk a second part of the mirror. >+> This strikes me a a sort of odd. >+> >+> Questions: >+> - should this work? >+> - should it work this way? > >Yes. It is because gstripe store metadata in the last provider's sector >and if two providers ends in the same place - you have a problem. >In that case, you should create you stripe by adding '-h' option, which >will add provider's name to metadata, so only this provider will be >connected to your stripe. > > the -h was my friend..... I do not really understand why it was trying to use the whole slice for mirroring?? But that might be my ignorance. --WjW
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