Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

From: Aisaka Taiga <spambox_at_haruhiism.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:25:42 +0400
Ivan Voras wrote:
> Yes, it would be cleaner to implement but it would also make the
> mirrored devices unbootable.
> But maybe the class of users needing the functionality is smaller now.
>   
Most dedicated server providers can't afford to use hardware RAID 
systems because that would drastically increase the price of a single 
system; yet many customers want mirroring.
> Looks too complicated and fragile. Maybe there's a need for
> metadata-less automatic mirrors in some way, by storing the
> configuration somewhere else, possibly in /etc.
This might be dangerous in some cases. Imagine booting with two drives 
swapped; such a configuration might lead to data corruption on a volume 
which was enumerated incorrectly or swapped.

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Kamigishi Rei
KREI-RIPE
Received on Sun Jun 28 2009 - 11:25:33 UTC

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