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

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

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. > > Dependin