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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:03:55 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Joerg Pernfuss <jp@bsdgroup.de>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New g_part class
Message-ID:  <20070209100355.GB3742@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4221.1170921240@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20070208082116.5ac22bee@loki.starkstrom.lan> <4221.1170921240@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:54:00AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20070208082116.5ac22bee@loki.starkstrom.lan>, Joerg Pernfuss =
writes
> :
>=20
> >So in theory, the following should work?
> >
> >- set up a server with 2 160g sata drives (standard example that i
> >  hope everyone can relate to)
> >- gmirror them
> >- set up one slice covering the whole gmirror
> >- create a disklabel for example with:
> >		a	2g	/
> >		b	4g	swap
> >		c	voodoo
> >		d	4g	/tmp
> >		e	16g	/var
> >		f	20g	/usr
> >		g	54g	/jails
> >  This leaves the h partition and around 56g free for "later usage"
> >  in case something comes up/happens or g needs to be grown.
> >- add the 'h' partition later on while the system is running
>=20
> It works if you leave gmirror out of the picture, so what gmirror
> does wrong I don't know.

I don't see how gmirror can break anything when it is placed below BSD
partitions. Maybe except that I saw some time ago that bsdlabel(8)
assume there is no '/' in provider's name.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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