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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:56:48 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fix remote degraded gmirror
Message-ID:  <6201873e0909281056m1660351arc38c5faa975fef02@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the information re reboot; I think I knew it was a sata already.
> My one remaining question is what preparation does the hd need prior to
> gmirror insert. I see various people recommending clearing out various
> chunks of the disk (to make the disk unambiguously not in sync?), but that
> doesn't seem to be required. I guess the whole idea is to be able to just
> connect a new disk and start the system up and then insert back into the
> mirror.
> --
> Robin Becker
>


well, really only thing I can think of off hand is conflict gmirror labels
ie inserting into gm0 from another gm0.

a simple

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adX bs=1M count=1

would fix that if nothing else

if there's was no existing label, there is nothing to do except gmirror man
instructions.  Gmirror is block level mirroring which why no other steps are
needed.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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