Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:39:05 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmirror question Message-ID: <20061025103905.GB50937@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <20061025101801.GE23885@rink.nu> References: <20061025100759.GA50625@gvr.gvr.org> <20061025101801.GE23885@rink.nu>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:18:01PM +0200, Rink Springer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition? > > If not: is it possible with other tools? > > I think this is possible, have you tried (inspired by man gmirror) > > # gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0s1a da1s1a da2s1a > > It's been a while since I last used this; but I believe it will work. The problem is that gmirror stores its label in the last sector of the partition. I do not know how to reserve that space with newfs. -Guido
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