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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:26:05 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Schlake (William Colburn)" <schlake@nmt.edu>
Cc:        njl@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org, mdodd@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When will gmirror work in FreeBSD 5?
Message-ID:  <20050809182605.GA6445@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20050809180341.GA11970@nmt.edu>
References:  <20050809180341.GA11970@nmt.edu>

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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:03:41PM -0600, Schlake (William Colburn) wrote:
+> My computer started out with 2 gmirrored drives on FreeBSD 5.  Back in
+> March I got two new hard drives and gmirrored them for the extra space.
+> I quickly discovered that my data was corrupted on writes.  A search of
+> the bugs database revealed that this was a known issue
+> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Di386/77643).
+>=20
+> I'm out of disk space, and I would really like to use my two extra disks
+> that have been spinning idle for the past five months, but there has
+> been no work on the ticket?

There is nothing to fix in gmirror, it should be fixed in ATA code.
(CCing sos@, mdodd@ and njl@).

+> Is this the right mailing list to ask in?  I've heard that gmirror still
+> works in FreeBSD 4.  Should I downgrade?

There is no gmirror in FreeBSD 4.x as there is no GEOM in FreeBSD 4.x.

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