gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt
Aisaka Taiga
spambox at haruhiism.net
Sun Jun 28 13:25:34 UTC 2009
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
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