Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:17:14 -0500 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror Message-ID: <20120210111714.ea903869.web@3dresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <86sjijbyqk.fsf@totoro.hack.org> References: <20120208134259.1da6e837.web@3dresearch.com> <86sjijbyqk.fsf@totoro.hack.org>
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:20:03 +0100 Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org> wrote: > Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>, 2012-02-08 19:42 (+0100): > > > 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize > > disks - correct? > > I think the guide you linked to: > > http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071 > > meant that you have to be in single user mode until you have edited > /etc/fstab to point to the mirror, otherwise you wouldn't boot with > root on the mirror. The synchronization between the disks works fine > in multi-user mode as well. > > I have two 2 TiB disks in gmirror set up just like that. > Synchronization was done running in multi-user. You are right - just removed and then re-inserted a component in one of the mirrors and the mirror synchronized fine in multi-user mode. -- Janos Dohanics
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