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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:27:09 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Setting up GEOM mirror
Message-ID:  <D92512E3-2C30-4FC1-97B3-52DE6513B948@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <449ED26B.20706@rogers.com>
References:  <449ECDD1.8070407@sh.cvut.cz> <449ED0BF.90001@infracaninophile.co.uk> <449ED26B.20706@rogers.com>

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On Jun 25, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:

>>
>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
>>
>
> The problem with these instructions is that they don't take in to  
> account the last sector. You may very well end up writing the  
> metadata on the file system.
>

When was the last time you fdisk'd a disk and it used the last sector  
on the drive? I always end up with a bunch of extra space that didn't  
fit into the round numbers of the file system.




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