Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:09 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider Message-ID: <86u0o3lj82.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:47:28 %2B0100") References: <16901.26814.588055.457273@satchel.alerce.com> <16902.27236.71619.138367@satchel.alerce.com> <20050206191209.GC1080@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <16902.28195.6589.299894@satchel.alerce.com> <20050211133917.GA45990@engelschall.com> <16923.20768.336451.133236@satchel.alerce.com> <86k6p0mj7x.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050222234728.GV9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> writes: > > > I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name > > > if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length. > > This wouldn't be a problem if gmirror, gstripe etc. placed metadata at > > the start of the provider, like God intended, instead of at the end. > You won't be able to boot from the mirror then. That's a special case, and it could have been solved differently (e.g. by teaching the boot loader to recognize gmirror metadata). It does not justify the similar breakage in gstripe and graid3. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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