Making gmirror metadata cooperate with gpt metadata

2021-02-07 Thread Abner Gershon
Disclaimer, I am not a programmer but have tinkered with shell and perl scripts. Having said that, I think many would appreciate the option of using gmirror with disks larger than 2T. The reason this is currently impossible is due to GPT and gmirror both trying to store metadata in the last disk s

Re: Making gmirror metadata cooperate with gpt metadata

2021-02-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 7, 2021, at 8:50 AM, Abner Gershon <6731...@gmail.com> wrote: > Disclaimer, I am not a programmer but have tinkered with shell and perl > scripts. Having said that, I think many would appreciate the option of > using gmirror with disks larger than 2T. > > The reason this is currently impos

Problem reports for g...@freebsd.org that need special attention

2021-02-07 Thread bugzilla-noreply
To view an individual PR, use: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=(Bug Id). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users, which need special attention. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and ob

Re: Making gmirror metadata cooperate with gpt metadata

2021-02-07 Thread Abner Gershon
Wow, thanks for opening my eyes to this. I did not realize that BSD partitions may be layered on top of a GPT partition. If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting I use fdisk to partition a GPT partition? BSD partitions are still limited to 2TB but that would be 2TB per GPT partition. M

Re: Making gmirror metadata cooperate with gpt metadata

2021-02-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 7, 2021, at 4:23 PM, Abner Gershon <6731...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, thanks for opening my eyes to this. I did not realize that BSD > partitions may be layered on top of a GPT partition. Hopefully it was clear from my original reply that I wasn't sure you could do this and you should try

Re: Making gmirror metadata cooperate with gpt metadata

2021-02-07 Thread Abner Gershon
Thanks for the clarifications and additional info. -Ab On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 5:56 PM Paul Mather wrote: > On Feb 7, 2021, at 4:23 PM, Abner Gershon <6731...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Wow, thanks for opening my eyes to this. I did not realize that BSD > > partitions may be layered on top of a GPT