From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 14:37:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387061065679 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com (mail-yw0-f178.google.com [209.85.211.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43FD8FC22 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh8 with SMTP id 8so3911640ywh.3 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:37:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=zabZlonxhv52flPQbexdSPveA3ymt4pgY1Z8KBCEYq0=; b=XiE9OG2kzfOGtbj8rWJG4IeqWpszbom092zntXNu6XB7y/W1TQGxN9ghD0hYCzGMDl Unpd6YklALiP7dTmnyLiBtttFQRCuHZuZ/WiHlNt/zvXT+12gfsBdvmHfWiGXB0tJsa9 dbdTBTDPP7YhyXzFyjSNJfplwZ0rQFukJc3AE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=oFG2QaL11+pUZ72M7VhGV4bly8Mx86X95ZnL7NcC43Seg5xRGOSR8p2AIRnuLxtTeW 9nU0K/7mU15E8VBd768Ry53TkoyFmZ12zkJnjVAMv4sO8j0tAPvqiiLcDw7NKt9E6HTz vSt3jxX80rnlSndtoPsa/vwm50RtvPaBz4rEM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.171.6 with SMTP id t6mr8244020ybe.204.1255963073238; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:37:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ADC794F.3050505@videotron.ca> References: <4ADC6D89.10600@videotron.ca> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57086@w2003s01.double-l.local> <4ADC772F.3060303@videotron.ca> <6201873e0910190729v12f66335xe93d0c83a0ee7aee@mail.gmail.com> <4ADC794F.3050505@videotron.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:37:53 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910190737o1d849953h6761085ba532f8f6@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: PJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Johan Hendriks , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel clarification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:37:54 -0000 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ > > wrote: > > > > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would > > work; I am > > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update > > with changes on the master machine from time to time and thus prevent > > data loss in case of problems. So I use ad12 as the main system; if > it > > were to crash I would then boot from ad6 which is identical. But the > > /etc/fstab is identical in both machines. So if I boot from ad6, I > > will > > get booted from ad12 ... so that doesn't work. It looks like we > > need an > > unique identifier for each disk. > > > > > > Why not use gmirror? > > > > > > -- > > Adam Vande More > because I am not using RAID. :-( > gmirror + ggated = disk or slice replicated to remote system -- Adam Vande More