Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-29 Thread Stefan Moro
Ok, that explains it. Thanks for the quick answers! BR Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Chris St Denis
Stefan Moro wrote: Hi! I've got a question regarding the way that gmirror identifies what components (if that is the right term) are included in a mirror. I recently created a mirror over two disks, ad2 and ad4. After some bios changes (activating PATA) these devices were changed to ad6 and

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If I have understood things correctly, gmirror stores all relevant information about the mirror in the last sector on the provider. exactly. it doesn't matter how the disks are connected. all data is in last sector. for non-mirrored drives it's useful to use glabel to get the same

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 17:53:20 Stefan Moro wrote: But if this is the case, how does gmirror know that it should use (in my example above) ad10 and not ad4 as the additional disk in the mirror. Or does gmirror use something else than the /dev entries to address disks?? I'm just curious

Re: geom gmirror question

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a