Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:31:22 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror, gpart and MBR vs GPT in the Handbook Message-ID: <20131202103122.GN66981@mordor.lan> In-Reply-To: <201312011121580096.005D00FB@smtp.24cl.home> References: <201311301303210813.05DE187E@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311301352140.99113@wonkity.com> <201312011121580096.005D00FB@smtp.24cl.home>
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If you want to use GPT with gmirror you may want to mirror each partition instead of the whole disk. For example on my box I have the following: https://dpaste.de/Rb3S On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:21:58AM -0500, Mike. wrote: > On 11/30/2013 at 2:17 PM Warren Block wrote: > > |On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Mike. wrote: > | > | [snip] > | > |> Is there a specific reason why MBR was used in the Handbook > |> example for creating a mirror, instead of GPT? > | > |Yes, there was, see the last paragraph of the Metadata Issues > |subsection, > |http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-m > irror.html#geom-mirror-metadata > | > |[snip] > ============= > > > A question about the wording of that paragraph. The second > sentence states: > > "Because GPT partition schemes also store metadata at the end of > the disk, mirroring full GPT disks with gmirror(8) is not > recommended." > > > The word "full" is ambiguous. Is it to mean, "full" as in 'full > of data', or "full" as in 'the entire disk'? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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