Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:21:22 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Koen Smits <kgysmits@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror a GPT partition, what label? Message-ID: <20090108202122.GA72107@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <b072dc420901081135k9e19e6dsca199dd778abdf9b@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 08:35:25PM +0100, Koen Smits wrote: > Hi, > > My new NAS will have the following disk layout: > ad0 -> 2gb CF > ad4 -> 1TB WD Green > ad6 -> 1TB WD Green > > The CF will boot the rig, the 2 1TB disks will be mirrored with ZFS. No > problem there, did it before. > The problem lies in the swap space, which I want to place at the first > gigabyte of the 1TB disks. The disks will use GPT layout. I want to gmirror > the first 1GB partition on both disks. How should I accomplish this? Is it > sufficient to label both partitions 'freebsd'? According to man 8 gpart > 'freebsd' should not be used when using GPT. Any insight would be > appreciated. gmirror shouldn't care what the underlying type is though using freebsd may confuse future tools that expect to find a bsdlabel on the partition. That being said, I'd be pretty surprised if mirroring your swap partition did anything other than causing pain and preventing coredumps. You can have quite a number of swap partitions so why not just add both and have twice as much (plus the chance to successfully produce a core dump if you need to debug something). -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJZmBBXY6L6fI4GtQRAlDPAJ9VYrYj3HNq1pEqTAPKT4Dnm7AZWgCgsoOV f3mcWDMXITe9KwbColrIBrs= =Vxri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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