Notes on a gmirrored partitions setup written into a draft
article:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Johan Hendriks wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wrote:
So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills
confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a
gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one block less than it
>On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills
> confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a
> gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one block less than it does, so it
> doesn't overwrite the GPT
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> So it's cosmetic, but not really the kind of message that instills
> confidence. gptboot needs to be able to tell if it's reading from a
> gmirror. Or gmirror should provide one block less than it does, so it
> doesn't overwrite the GPT ba
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Warren Block wrote:
Question 2 is maybe simpler. On boot, it shows this:
gptboot: invalid backup GPT header
I can speculate on what causes that (whether the various g-things use the
absolute last
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> Question 2 is maybe simpler. On boot, it shows this:
> gptboot: invalid backup GPT header
>
> I can speculate on what causes that (whether the various g-things use the
> absolute last block of the device, or the last block of their area and
Trying to use labeled devices and filesystems where possible, and adding
gmirror into the mix. (This is with 8-STABLE, i386.)
glabel two disks "primary" and "secondary".
gmirror the two:
gmirror label -v -b round-robin data /dev/label/primary /dev/label/secondary
Use gpart to create *and labe
