RE: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-09-17 Thread Warren Block
Notes on a gmirrored partitions setup written into a draft article: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-27 Thread Johan Hendriks
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one block less than it does, so it doesn't

RE: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Johan Hendriks wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one

Re: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Question 2 is maybe simpler. On boot, it shows this: gptboot: invalid backup GPT header I can speculate on what causes that (whether the various g-things use the absolute last block of the device, or the last block of

Re: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Question 2 is maybe simpler.  On boot, it shows this:  gptboot: invalid backup GPT header I can speculate on what causes that (whether the various g-things use

Re: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one block less than it does, so it doesn't