Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:48:29 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmirror question Message-ID: <20061025104829.GA41873@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20061025103905.GB50937@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20061025100759.GA50625@gvr.gvr.org> <20061025101801.GE23885@rink.nu> <20061025103905.GB50937@gvr.gvr.org>
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Hi! On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > # gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0s1a da1s1a da2s1a > > > > It's been a while since I last used this; but I believe it will work. > > The problem is that gmirror stores its label in the last sector of the > partition. I do not know how to reserve that space with newfs. You don't need to. If your bsdlabel partition is N sectors in size, the gmirror object will have size N - 1. Newfs will not be able to write to that last sector. You newfs the finished mirror device, not the individual partitions. HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de
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