On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:30:08PM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: +> First, I partioned (fdisk) for a full FreeBSD system, with +> sysinstall, which got me this: [...] +> Then I tried to compose a single disk gmirror with the whole ad1 disk: [...]
First mistake - wrong order. Create a mirror, than partition a mirror provider. +> Now, lets reboot. I could not unload geom_mirror, since it was +> preloaded during boot, is this expected? The device could not be +> unloaded, but the volume disapeared (gmirror list, ls /dev/mirror). If there is no mirror configured, you should be able to unload it. +> Ok, now let's try something diferent. Let's suppose that I only +> want one slice mirrored. Maybe the other slices could be standalone, or +> striped, this is not important now. Let's just say I do want to mirror +> ad1s1, instead of the whole ad1. [...] +> But the consumer name is still ad1, and not ad1s1. Hey, let's check: Read manual page. Gmirror uses the last provider's sector for metadata. If two or more providers share the same last sector (as in your case), use '-h' option. +> Is there any gmirror hacker around to fix these? There is nothing to fix. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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