gmirror issues (fdisk?, disklabel?, newfs?)

R. B. Riddick arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 27 22:10:00 PST 2006


--- "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> wrote:
> Ah, you've introduced an extra layer between the device and the mirror.
> You're not using gmirror on the whole device, as I am.  Probably bsdlabel
> isn't GEOM-ready and thus it allows you to modify ad0 directly.  Yet
> another bug.
> 
Hmm
I think, slices (fdisk) and partitions (bsdlabel) are both GEOM classes now, so
that bsdlabel is able to work with GEOM classes.
Furthermore I did this gmirror/bsdlabel test with a md0 device and it worked
fine for me (on R6.1) (I posted that some hours ago)...

-Arne


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