On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is
that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom
provider, and geom constructs will nest very happily. Here's a howto
for setting up gmirror across a pair of
Does gmirror consider one of the consumers to act as a master for the pair?
No. The order doesn't matter. You could take out your hard drives and
shuffle them like cards and it wouldn't matter. All metadata is stored
in the last sector of the drives themselves. Cable order is
irrelevant.
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is
that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom
provider, and geom constructs will nest very happily. Here's a howto
for setting up gmirror across a pair of
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as
an opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go
ahead there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected slices?
You can't do this. gmirror is FreeBSD specific,
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected
Mike Clarke wrote:
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just
On 17.01.2010 19:18, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected slices?
You
On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an
opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go ahead
there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm not sure about and would
appreciate some advice.
I'm
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:34 AM
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I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an
opportunity to get two disks
I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an
opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go ahead
there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm not sure about and would
appreciate some advice.
I'm using grub for multi booting. Does this introduce any
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