On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
+> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> ...
+> >The thing you have to avoid (probably it should be more clear in the
+> >manual page) is to allow providers to share the same last sector.
+> >The gradi3 class uses the last provider's sector to store metadata
+> >and if you have 2 or more providers which share this sector you are
+> >in troubles. In your case da1, da1s1 and da1s1a providers use the
+> >same last sector and graid3 is confused and picks first provider
+> >given by GEOM for taste.
+> >You should create labels once again and leave the last sector on da1s1
+> >unused, so da1s1 and da1s1a don't end at the same offset.
+> >
+> 
+> Ah, I'll try.
+> Would it be possible to use the first sector?

For metadata? No. I use last sector in all my classes, so you can boot
without problems from gmirror provider.

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