Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:04:21 +0000 From: Robin Breathe <robin+spam@isometry.net> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Cc: Terje Elde <terje+geom@elde.net> Subject: Re: gmirror problems Message-ID: <41950935.2010103@isometry.net> In-Reply-To: <20041108164540.GF8120@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <200411081140.57792.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net> <20041108120513.GH11057@calleigh.elde.net> <20041108124606.GC8120@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200411081540.05593.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net> <20041108164540.GF8120@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Unfortunately, gmirror and other GEOM classes are not supported by our > installer. > > The safest way to do what you want is to: > > # gmirror label <name> ad1 > create slices and partitions on /dev/mirror/<name> > create file system > copy data from ad0 to <name> > change /etc/fstab to boot from /dev/mirror/<name>s1a or something > reboot > # gmirror insert <name> ad0 Are any nasty side-effects likely from slicing and newfs-ing ad1 prior to labelling the mirror? For example, could the gmirror metadata get overwritten at some later stage by writing to the end of the last slice? Robinhome | help
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