mirroring two data disks (no system files on them)

[Karl Denninger]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:21:37PM -0400, Christian Caron wrote:
> Tomas Zvala a écrit :
> > did /dev/ad3s1 contain filesystem already? did you do newfs 
> > /dev/mirror/gm0s1 ? what does it mean "dies"? what does it say?
> 
> Ok... man newfs shed some light on how to prepare a new disk...
> 
> newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1
> mkdir /mirror
> mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1 /mirror
> 
> did the trick. It boots ok and it seems to work (gmirror list does 
> return something, although it says "DIRTY" which doesn't sound 
> excellent...).
> 
> I'll read the manual.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christian

"Dirty" is normal.  It means the volume is mounted and has data on it, and
is not "clean", just as a mounted disk is "dirty" while it is actually
mounted.

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