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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:07:32 +0200
From:      Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>
To:        Maciej Jan Broniarz <gausus@gausus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs on gmirror slice
Message-ID:  <061541E3-F301-46C4-8ECB-5B05854F0EAA@exscape.org>
In-Reply-To: <a7454e2f0909010704g2fb27216hacb3ffd2cae5594c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a7454e2f0909010704g2fb27216hacb3ffd2cae5594c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is is a bad ida to create a zfs pool from a gmirrored slice?
> zpool create tank /dev/mirror/gm0s1g works fine, but after the reboot
> the filesystem failes consistency check.
>
> Regards,
> mjb
I'm not familiar with gmirror, but it'd be a way better idea to mirror  
it using ZFS if possible - that way you get self-healing and stuff  
like that, which you won't if ZFS doesn't have a mirror/RAIDZ setup,  
but only sees a single slice.

Regards,
Thomas



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