Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> Cc: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure Message-ID: <20060828153716.GB64750@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au> References: <20060828102151.94147.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:45:25PM +0930, Alastair Watts wrote: > Hi Arne, > > R. B. Riddick wrote: > > >I say, did u consider migrating to gmirror or graid3? > >Or even graid5? ;-)) > > I use gmirror as much as I can! I used gvinum this time though as the disks are slightly different.. ad0 is 38166MB while ad2 is 38204MB and as far as I know, drives need > to be identical sizes for gmirror to work. > > Is there a way to use gmirror with these two drives? # gmirror label foo ad0 ad2 The size of the mirror will be the size of the smallest component minus one sector. If you don't want to lose space, you should partition bigger disk and mirror smaller disk with partition of the bigger disk. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE8w2rForvXbEpPzQRAr85AJ4o50MhU/ID1HcymVfTz6ggVpH2fACgxFbO 3Hv818QnWcteIiIzpXHc+aQ= =B5Os -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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