On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:41:31PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Long ago I saw a proposal to create a dedicated partition on GPT to > hold the metadata. With the large number of partitions available on > GPT, tying up one just for GEOM seems like a low price and it moves > the device GEOM out of the realm of FreeBSD unique and subject to > serious issues when/if a disk is shared with some other OS. I have > seen little comment on this and have never seen any argument that that > it could not work. > > I think this is an issue that will continue to bite users unless it is fixed.
I don't really see how dedicating a partition for metadata can work or is good idea, sorry. As for sharing disk with other OS. If you share the disk with OS that doesn't support gmirror, you shouldn't use gmirror in the first place. You probably want to use only formats that are recognized by all your OSes. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl
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