Hardcoding gmirror provider

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 22 15:47:31 PST 2005


On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
+> George Hartzell <hartzell at kestrel.alerce.com> writes:
+> > I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name
+> > if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length.
+> 
+> This wouldn't be a problem if gmirror, gstripe etc. placed metadata at
+> the start of the provider, like God intended, instead of at the end.

You won't be able to boot from the mirror then.

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