Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:13:32 -0500 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror, gpart and MBR vs GPT in the Handbook Message-ID: <201312021213320528.00673D5F@smtp.24cl.home> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312011016490.5791@wonkity.com> References: <201311301303210813.05DE187E@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311301352140.99113@wonkity.com> <201312011121580096.005D00FB@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312011016490.5791@wonkity.com>
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On 12/1/2013 at 10:21 AM Warren Block wrote: |On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, Mike. wrote: | |> On 11/30/2013 at 2:17 PM Warren Block wrote: |[snip] |> |> A question about the wording of that paragraph. The second |> sentence states: |> |> "Because GPT partition schemes also store metadata at the end of |> the disk, mirroring full GPT disks with gmirror(8) is not |> recommended." |> |> |> The word "full" is ambiguous. Is it to mean, "full" as in 'full |> of data', or "full" as in 'the entire disk'? | |It means mirroring an entire disk, including boot blocks and metadata, |rather than just parts of it like partitions or filesystems. | |I'll work on rewriting that paragraph for clarity. ============= I noticed a change in the wording this morning. :) My understanding is that MBR can be used with drives only up to and including 2TB in size. So if I use MBR, the maximum drive size I could use would be 2TB. Is that correct?
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