Re: Dog Food <tm>

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 02:08 -0800, Peter Maloney wrote:
>> And what problems did you run into?
>>
>
> More or less, trying to do gmirror(4) style mirroring on GPT partitions
> doesn't work. =C2=A0See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.h=
tml
> for the BIG RED WARNING that says why.
>

Er, gmirroring GPT _partitions_ works just fine. It is when you try to
gmirror an entire disk that is partitioned with GPT that you have
issues, as gmirror trashes the secondary GPT table at the end of the
disk. You do not have that issue with individual GPT partitions.

Cheers

Tom
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