gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata sector overlapping a data sector. OK, I see the warning in the

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote: [risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use] It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the filesystem, etc. Depending on