Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:34:59 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...) Message-ID: <200611160934.59907.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <200611151152.50893.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <f3625a5e0611140813l70f24411j98ac03c12a9ed6f3@mail.gmail.com> <200611151740.43910.jonathan@hst.org.za> <200611151152.50893.lists@jnielsen.net>
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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. > > Depending on what type of device you actually pass to gmirror as a consumer > (raw disk, slice, or partition), it should be possible to manually ensure > that there are a couple unused sectors at the end. It just depends on how > paranoid (or possibly other more reasonable terms) you are. I've always maintained that the correct question to ask a sysadmin is not Are you paranoid? but rather Are you paranoid *enough*? <grin /> Jonathan
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