Re: Dog Food <tm>


Sean Bruno schreef:
> 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.  See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html
> for the BIG RED WARNING that says why.
>
>> This guide worked for me:
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror
> That, along with a lot of how to's, is out of date in the FreeBSD 9
> world.  I would suspect that my experience of attempting to setup a
> mirrored volume won't be unique.
>
> BSDInstaller and its predecessor Sysinstall don't have any code to
> create or destroy zfs(4) or geom(4) volumes.  So, the amount of exposure
> to real users is approaching 0 in comparison to the number of people who
> really do use FreeBSD.
>
> I have my hands full with other projects at the moment, but I'm more
> than happy to grant access to a two disk SATA server if someone wants to
> enhance BSDInstall with zfs(4) or geom(4) volume management features.
>
> At a minimum, you *should* be able to take 2 disks and make a mirrored
> volume with either tool.
>
> Sean
also a good guide is here.
http://unix-heaven.org/node/24
And gmirror GPT partitions is no problem, only with whole disks is where 
problems arise.

regards
Johan Hendriks
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