Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:21:25 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID 1 via ataraid(4) Message-ID: <20071210232125.GA17108@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20071210223114.GA31136@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <20071210201734.GA16012@VARK.MIT.EDU> <475DAF79.9080900@nokia.com> <20071210214936.GA16598@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071210223114.GA31136@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to David Schultz: > > Good point, thanks. I'd forgotten that gmirror stores its metadata > > at the end of the drive instead of at the beginning as ccd does. > > Nevertheless, I'd be interested in what people's experiences have > > been with ataraid(4), particularly since it's more flexible in > > terms of putting multiple operating systems on different > > partitions of the same mirror. > > You know you can use gmirror on either whole drives or on specific slices, > right? Right, but that doesn't magically cause the other partitions to be mirrored, and it requires manual relabelling when a drive is replaced.
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