Hi all, A hopefully quick question! I have looked for a solution for (or discussion about) this, if I've just failed to find it, please point me in the right direction. This is what I'm trying to do: I've created a RAID-1 array, m1, using gmirror on two scsi units, da0 and da1, and I'd like to chop it up into logical partitions using gpt, as I understand (correctly, hopefully) there are leanings toward gpt rather than bsdlabel as being the correct way to do things. Now when I initialise and create my gpt partition on mirror/m1, I get no new entries in /dev/mirror but I _do_ get separate /dev/da0p1 and /dev/da1p1 entries appearing. I've probably completely failed to understand the whole concept of GEOM tasting and unprejudiced hierarchy and so on as I decided I may as well try to create my UFS2 filesystem on /dev/da0p1 in /dev/mirror/m1p1's absence and see if /dev/da1p1 magically follows suit. Needless to say it doesn't, I just end up with a dirty RAID-1 disc that needs resynchronising, with da0p1 (un)mysteriously disappearing after the newfs. Is there a correct way to do this, or am I once again guilty of trying to use something that isn't quite ready yet? Perhaps I should do it the other way around and use gpt first and create one gmirror per partition; that solution didn't "feel" right for some reason, but I can't really quantify that particularly as, if I understand the GEOM documentation correctly, multiple gmirrors with their respective paritions on the same set of discs shouldn't compete with each for access. My system is FreeBSD/amd64, 6.0-current (Oct 25th vintage) using ahc for my test scsi discs and aac for my active discs. Cheers, Chris.Received on Sat Nov 27 2004 - 18:58:38 UTC
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