Sean Bruno schreef: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 02:08 -0800, Peter Maloney wrote: >> And what problems did you run into? >> > More or less, trying to do gmirror(4) style mirroring on GPT partitions > doesn't work. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html > for the BIG RED WARNING that says why. > >> This guide worked for me: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > That, along with a lot of how to's, is out of date in the FreeBSD 9 > world. I would suspect that my experience of attempting to setup a > mirrored volume won't be unique. > > BSDInstaller and its predecessor Sysinstall don't have any code to > create or destroy zfs(4) or geom(4) volumes. So, the amount of exposure > to real users is approaching 0 in comparison to the number of people who > really do use FreeBSD. > > I have my hands full with other projects at the moment, but I'm more > than happy to grant access to a two disk SATA server if someone wants to > enhance BSDInstall with zfs(4) or geom(4) volume management features. > > At a minimum, you *should* be able to take 2 disks and make a mirrored > volume with either tool. > > Sean also a good guide is here. http://unix-heaven.org/node/24 And gmirror GPT partitions is no problem, only with whole disks is where problems arise. regards Johan HendriksReceived on Thu Dec 08 2011 - 16:31:01 UTC
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