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Subject: Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>the BIOS, install gmirror on disk 1, reboot, and add the second disk in?  
> >>Or
> 
> i think - just YES. no problem
There is always chnace, that UFS will overwrite last sector on the disk,
and gmirror metadata will be destroyed. But probability is not
dangerously high :-).