Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:41:50 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: graid3 not working on partitions Message-ID: <20041124153743.B76490@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <20041124093356.GJ7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20041124091400.G74665@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041124093356.GJ7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
...
> The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the
> manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector.
> The gradi3 class uses the last provider's sector to store metadata
> and if you have 2 or more providers which share this sector you are
> in troubles. In your case da1, da1s1 and da1s1a providers use the
> same last sector and graid3 is confused and picks first provider
> given by GEOM for taste.
> You should create labels once again and leave the last sector on da1s1
> unused, so da1s1 and da1s1a don't end at the same offset.
>
Jup. This worked.
BTW: Is there a way to change a providers sectorsize (da1s1a in my case)
or ist it allways inherited from da1?
Bye/2
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