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 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 cur

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 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 a

A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Moro
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 ad10 respectively. The