On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote: [risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use]
> It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due > to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the > filesystem, etc. > > Depending on what type of device you actually pass to gmirror as a consumer > (raw disk, slice, or partition), it should be possible to manually ensure > that there are a couple unused sectors at the end. It just depends on how > paranoid (or possibly other more reasonable terms) you are. I've always maintained that the correct question to ask a sysadmin is not Are you paranoid? but rather Are you paranoid *enough*? <grin /> Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"