Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:53:06 -0600 From: "Elliot Finley" <efinleywork@efinley.com> To: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com>, "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? Message-ID: <0a7c01c6cd26$a76b5b80$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> References: <226ae0c60608311017j1a4bea9cg6dbaa12414d74716@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > Bonus Tip of the day! If you ever have two disk drives which are not > identical, such as these: > > ad0: 4112MB <WDC AC24300L 09.09M08> at ata0-master UDMA33 > ad3: 4028MB <Maxtor 84320D4 NAVXAA21> at ata1-slave UDMA33 > > Then make sure you install FreeBSD on the bigger one (i.e. here that > would be ad0) then setup gmirror. If you do the oposite, you will have > a "Consumers too small" error when you try to bring the mirror > together. I could be wrong, but that seems backwards. Elliot
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