On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:07:03PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: +> This is a situation that I currently consider 'unsupported'. The problem +> is that the 'd' partition has no offset, thus it is (from the point of +> view of a geom_vinum drive geom) the same as the 'c' partition. This is +> the first problem. The second problem is the on-disk format of a +> bsdlabel. As far as I understand it, this meta-data is stored inside +> the first partition, so when you open the drive for writing (i.e. +> mount, fsck) you trigger a spoil event which cause all kinds of confusion +> for geom_vinum. I don't know exactly what problems you got, but maybe it can help you: To avoid spoiling and metadata changes under me, I'm opening every provider, which I want to use in geom_mirror (r1w1e1), even if provider which I create isn't yet opened. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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