Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:21:58 -0500 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror, gpart and MBR vs GPT in the Handbook Message-ID: <201312011121580096.005D00FB@smtp.24cl.home> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311301352140.99113@wonkity.com> References: <201311301303210813.05DE187E@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311301352140.99113@wonkity.com>
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On 11/30/2013 at 2:17 PM Warren Block wrote: |On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Mike. wrote: | | [snip] | |> Is there a specific reason why MBR was used in the Handbook |> example for creating a mirror, instead of GPT? | |Yes, there was, see the last paragraph of the Metadata Issues |subsection, |http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-m irror.html#geom-mirror-metadata | |[snip] ============= A question about the wording of that paragraph. The second sentence states: "Because GPT partition schemes also store metadata at the end of the disk, mirroring full GPT disks with gmirror(8) is not recommended." The word "full" is ambiguous. Is it to mean, "full" as in 'full of data', or "full" as in 'the entire disk'? Thanks.
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