[HOWTO] FreeBSD system disk mirroring with GEOM

[Ken Gunderson]

Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:36:34PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> 
>>FYI: I've prepared a detailed step-by-step command list on how to
>>establish a RAID-1 (mirror) for the system partitions with GEOM and
>>gmirror(8). You can find the resulting HOWTO document under
>>http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
> 
> 
> Looks good, but:
> 
> It doesn't render too well under Konquerer - the examples are smashed
> into a single, very long, line vanishing off the right side of the
> screen.

fwiw-- doesn't look too good under Firefox either...  But I am sure 
anything that gets slated to the handbook will be translated to docbook 
anyhow.

Ironically, I was also working on a little howto when this came in.  I 
had  a couple q's for Ralf that I posted privately since I didn't want 
to bother the geom dev heads with, but one area I think merits further 
elaboration prior to publicaton in the handbook is the inconsistencies 
between labels created via sysinstall gui and bsdlabel from the command 
line.  They threw me for a bit (until I figured out that they were 
inconsistent) and I am an experienced sysadmin.  A relative newbie to 
FBSD could easily become confused with bsdlabel -e.  Especially if, like 
many new users, they've tried it from sysinstall gui first.  A picture 
is worth a thousand words, so an actual  bsdlable -e session might be nice.

Ciao-- kg