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Date:      Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:08:42 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gmirror - how to do?
Message-ID:  <20050205230842.GD1666@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20050205170415.A12620@denninger.net>
References:  <20050205135705.A10437@denninger.net> <20050205201237.GB1666@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20050205170415.A12620@denninger.net>

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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:04:15PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
+> > Remember not to boot the main machine with this disk inside, as it can
+> > be tasted before your main 'boot' mirror. Inserting this disk after
+> > boot, when your 'boot' mirror is configured should be safe.
+>=20
+> Nope, won't work.
+>=20
+> The mirrors potentially have different PHYSICAL slice sizes (remember
+> this debate a while back on this list?) and if I do this, I'm guaranteed=
 to
+> screw the partition table, as the fdisk size of the slice table will be
+> picked up.

Sorry, but I don't understand.
How can you touch slices configuration by labeling ad4s1?

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