On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Pete French <petefre...@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: >> Correct. The layering is not, in itself, the issue. The issue is >> that the loader or kernel or whatever reads the first sector of the >> disk, finds a GPT so it then looks for the backup GPT in the last >> physical sector of the disk and doesn't find it. At this point, >> gmirror is not loaded (or not noticed, since there's nothing in the >> first sector of the disk to show it's a mirror). Once gmirror is >> loaded, then the GPT stops complaining as the first and last sectors >> of the gmirrror provider have the GPT tables. > > Is not the problem here that you are trying to GPT label a gmirrored disc ? > If you instead gmirror two GPT partitions then the problem goes away > doesnt it ? Thats how I set things up - use parititoning on the ohysical > drives, and then put the mirroring into the partitions thus created. > Works fine, and doesnt suffer from any of the afforementioned problems. > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
Actually I was first creating 2 GPT partitions on each disk and then creating a mirror on each of those partitions (2 partitions per disk, 2 mirrors). When doing that I ran into the secondary GPT block displaying as "not found" during boot. As I mentioned, I didn't know if that was a problem per-se, which is why I posted to the list to see if there was a better way of mirroring partitions. From what I'm gathering, I think I did things correctly actually. -Proto _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
